In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers in the United States evaluated the effects of maternal coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic-associated stress and fetal ...

Shoulder dystocia (SD) is a serious obstetric emergency that occurs when the fetal shoulders fail to deliver after the head has emerged during the second stage of labor. This condition can result in ...

North Dakota schools would be required to show students high-quality video of how a human fetus develops in each week of pregnancy under a bill Senate lawmakers approved during a vote Wednesday. The ...

A gene that turns on very early in embryonic development could be key to the formation of the placenta, which provides the ...

A study in mice has discovered that the presence of Bifidobacterium breve bacteria in the mother's gut during pregnancy promotes healthy brain development in the fetus. The fetal brain development of ...

Even fetuses yawn, a new study shows. During the second and third trimester, fetuses yawn frequently, and those yawns can be distinguished in four-dimensional ultrasounds from other mouth-opening ...

Sen. Pam Jochum, D-Dubuque, speaks Tuesday during a news conference at the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines. Senate Democrats unveiled a number of bills on reproductive health care, including one what would ...

Physicians are trained in the ethics of medicine from the first year of school. As a second-year medical student about to take the boards, I feel the need to insert some medical facts into the ...

Like the hands that pull the strings at a marionette puppet show, our resident microbes influence the day-to-day running of virtually all of our biological systems. For instance, host-microbe ...