Being born preterm is a known major risk factor for life-changing brain injury, but there is still a lot to understand about ...

as well as ultrasound—this approach could be valuable for studying how the brain works. This story was part of our September/October 2024 issue. He Jiankui, who went to prison for three years ...

In a major discovery, scientists have presented the first evidence of Alzheimer's disease transmission in living individuals.

At the core of this research is Diadem, a new biomedical device that uses ultrasound to noninvasively stimulate deep brain regions, potentially disrupting the faulty signals that lead to chronic pain.

Your practitioner will screen you for risk factors of premature delivery and discuss which precautions you could take. Measuring the length of the cervix using a special transvaginal ultrasound ...

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

For mothers-to-be, going for an MRI of the cervix area can give more accurate results than ultrasound to predict if some women will give a preterm birth, say researchers.

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

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

which can destroy the tiny piece of brain tissue causing the tremor without even opening up the skull. The surgery is done using ultrasound – simple sound waves, but concentrated so much that ...

Teenage girls who lived through Covid-19 lockdowns experienced more rapid brain aging than boys, The Guardian reported, citing data that suggests the social restrictions had a disproportionate impact ...

Your doctor might examine you to see if your cervix has thinned and dilated, because those changes indicate preterm labor. He or she might also measure your cervix using ultrasound and do a test ...