There was a time when pregnancy tests did not merely announce impending parenthood. They opened the door to nine months of low-grade anxiety dressed up as “monitoring”. Particularly if you happened to ...

A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that prenatal care starting in the first trimester declined from 2021 to 2024. The study, released Thursday, found that the ...

More pregnant women are delaying prenatal care until the later stages of pregnancy or going without it altogether, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Early prenatal care improves the chances of a healthy pregnancy and baby, but a new federal report shows it's been on the decline. The share of U.S. births to women who began prenatal care in the ...

New research using rhesus monkeys suggests that the brain’s relationship with alcohol may begin forming long before a person ever takes a drink. Scientists found that exposure to alcohol before birth ...

JA Rosenfeld is an employee of Signature Genomic Laboratories, a subsidiary of PerkinElmer, Inc. The authors have no other relevant affiliations or financial involvement with any organization or ...

Some women rush to their doctor just days after getting a positive pregnant test, but Dr. L. Joy Baker said she often sees patients for the first time just weeks or even days before they give birth.

The benefits of prenatal vitamins while not pregnant may include supporting iron levels in people who menstruate heavily and providing folic acid for preconception planning. Prenatal vitamins are ...

There are two key things to know about the new Applied Biosystems™ SwiftArrayStudio™ Microarray Analyzer from Thermo Fisher Scientific, said Ravi Gupta, vice president and general manager of Thermo ...