Biologists have built up one of the most detailed pictures ever of the changes that occur in women’s bodies before and after pregnancy, by pooling and studying around 44 million physiological ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - When a woman gets pregnant, doctors tell her to take certain precautions to ensure she and her baby remain healthy. But now there’s another person whose health ...

CINCINNATI (WKRC) — Maternal-fetal medicine specialists are underscoring the importance of maintaining an active lifestyle before, during, and after pregnancy. Dr. Kristin Coppage, a maternal-fetal ...

Pregnancy significantly affects the thyroid gland and its function due to increased metabolic needs. For example, a maternal body requires 40% to 100% more thyroid hormones to meet the needs of the ...

Cardiovascular-related health problems may occur in as many as 1 out of every 7 pregnancies, even among people who don't already have heart disease, according to new research published today in the ...

“Roughly 6% of all maternal deaths in the United States are due to a hypertensive disorder of pregnancy,” said Joan Briller, MD, of the University of Illinois, Chicago, in a presentation at the ...

During pregnancy, the body isn’t the only thing going through big changes—your brain does, too. For years, scientists knew the brain changed in motherhood, but only recently have they uncovered just ...