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Mothers who were obese were 1-2/3 times more likely to have a child with autism as normal-weight mothers without diabetes or hypertension, researchers discovered.
Pregnant Kourtney Kardashian recently changed her hair color after a long time. Dyeing hair is not a serious issue, but the fact that she is expecting a baby makes the difference. Connecting pregnancy and hair dyeing evokes concern regarding the safety of the unborn baby.
Mississippi has the highest teen birthrate in the nation while New Hampshire has the lowest, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Tuesday, following up on a report that found the incidence of pregnancy among U.S. teens was falling.
New research reveals the surprising economics behind the high U.S. teen birth rates, and why Texas teens are giving birth at triple the rate of Massachusetts youth: high income inequality and low opportunity cost.
Public schools in the United States are making "little progress" in expanding instruction in how to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV, a new federal study concluded.
Many women do not fully appreciate the consequences of delaying motherhood, and expect that assisted reproductive technologies can reverse their aged ovarian function, Yale researchers reported in a study published in a recent issue of Fertility and Sterility.
For children with autism, being born several weeks early or several weeks late tends to increase the severity of their symptoms, according to new research out of Michigan State University.
Women who eat a low-fat, fiber-rich diet in the year leading up to pregnancy are less likely to give birth to babies with birth defects, according to new study.
Women who get pregnant while dieting are putting their child at risk of obesity or type 2 diabetes in later life, according to a new study.
Contrary to old studies that women carried sexual fantasies only once in a while, a more accurate study conducted by the University of Lethbridge in Alberta, Canada, says that women happen to have more sexual imagination during their ovulation.
A paper by neuroscientists at the University at Buffalo and Buffalo State College suggests that ingestion of components of afterbirth or placenta -- placentophagia -- may offer benefits to human mothers and perhaps to non-mothers and males.
Many U.S. pharmacies may give teen girls incorrect information over the phone about whether they can get the morning-after pill - taken to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex - without a prescription, a new study suggests.
Researchers from the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, have presented evidence that early growth predicts the size, mineralisation, shape and strength of the hip bone in childhood. The presentation was made at the European Congress on Osteoporosis & Osteoarthritis (IOF-ECCEO12) which took place in Bordeaux, France from March 21-24, 2012.
The wife of a U.S. Army sergeant accused of killing 17 Afghan civilians this month said she does not believe her husband could have carried out the massacre and that she was confident he was fine before his latest deployment.
Mothers’ exposure to air pollutants during pregnancy can cause behavioral problems in the child, a new study led by Dr Frederica Perera, Director of the Columbia Center for Children’s Environmental Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, says.
The Invasion of the ‘Crazy’ Ants: South East America Faces a Growing Infestation 
Bras Make Breasts "Saggier", 15-year French Study Reveals 
Russian Gymnast Has the World's Strongest Vagina 
Bacon Restaurant Faces Closure...for Smelling Like Bacon 
Study Finds Brain Dictates Which Ear Cell Phones Go To 
UK Pilots Program that Will Allow Cancer Patients to Receive Information on Nearly 100 Genes 
Expert Group Charges that New Sunscreen SPF Labels Are Still Misleading 
Men Are Seen as More Attractive If They are Holding Guitars, Science Confirms 
Childhood ADHD Linked to Causing Adult Obesity, Study Reports 
NASA, Google Buy $15 Million Quantum Computer from Canadian Company 
