People who are pregnant or trying to get pregnant are advised by their health-care providers to stay away from alcohol because of the potential risks to their baby.

Giving women at risk of premature birth a simple magnesium sulfate infusion (or 'drip') can prevent their babies from ...

Pregnant women covered by Medicaid are less likely to get an ultrasound exam that can diagnose heart defects in a fetus, a ...

Researchers have created one of the first comprehensive maps of how the brain changes throughout pregnancy, substantially ...

Patients insured by Medicaid are less likely to get prenatal diagnosis of heart defects than those with private insurance, ...

Dr Agarwal explains that when the APOE gene is defective, it can accelerate brain degeneration, causing premature neuronal cell death. However, genetics alone cannot account for the increasing ...

June 6, 2024 — In a major advance for the treatment of the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma, scientists used ultrasound technology to penetrate the blood-brain barrier and provide a small dose ...

How the Brain Integrates Pain Prediction and Stimuli Sep. 23, 2024 — A study has uncovered new insights into how the brain processes and integrates pain information. The research goes beyond ...

Here, the authors show that mutations in scarb2 cause abnormal glial differentiation and excessive neurogenesis, leading to impaired blood-brain barrier formation. The impact of ultrasound ...

One dentist explains, 'Your mouth houses 700 species of microbes.' While not all of these are harmful, failing to brush your ...

Major tracts of white matter - which provide connections between different parts of the brain - show evidence of increasing during pregnancy Pregnancy brain really does exist, according to one of ...