When researchers removed the reproductive organ, female rats had more difficulty solving a water maze.

The girl was born in Brazil in December 2017.

Inflammation may be a strong contender for the connection between mom’s weight and children’s neurodevelopment, according to lab studies on animals.

The CDC finds one in seven children exposed to the virus in utero experiences health problems by age one.

A small study based on circulating RNA in the blood of moms-to-be describes a technique that could be used to help predict who’s most at risk of preterm labor.

Complications during pregnancy may act via the placenta to magnify the effects of genetic risk factors.

Immune cells targeting maternal antigens are abundant in the blood of premature infants, suggesting fetal intolerance of mom may instigate early labor.  

MRI data suggest prenatal exposure to the medication increases the volume of brain regions vital to processing emotions.

Infants whose moms received the shots when they were pregnant were no more at risk of dying or being hospitalized than other babies.