pregnancy

Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh, the power couple in Bollywood, are ready to start a family. The ‘DeepVeer’s’ first child is on the way. The happy news was announced by the pair on Instagram on Thursday...

The most recent figures, published on Thursday in a report by UN agencies, state that a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth every two minutes. Maternal deaths have either gone up or down in almost every...

Pregnant women with COVID-19 are more likely to have complications with pregnancy and birth compared to those without, according to research publishing November 30th in the open-access journal PLOS Medicine. The study looks at hospitalization for...

The news that a panda at Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo may be pregnant caused the share prices of nearby restaurant chains to temporarily surge on Friday. Fifteen-year-old giant panda Shin Shin is showing signs of pregnancy, the...

The number of women diagnosed with high blood pressure when they become pregnant or during the first 20 weeks of pregnancy has risen sharply in the U.S. over the last four decades, a new study suggests....

On September 17th, a research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes) showing that if a woman gains either too much or too little weight during pregnancy, there are...

New research published in Diabetologia shows that if a woman gains either too much or too little weight during pregnancy, there are adverse effects in children at 7 years of age. The study is by Professor...

Women who breathe polluted air during pregnancy may be more likely to have children who develop high blood pressure, a U.S. study suggests. Researchers focused on what’s known as fine particulate matter, or PM 2.5, a...

News Hour: Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy are associated with increased long-term risk for post-pregnancy hypertension, according to two studies in The BMJ. In the first, researchers used Danish health registries to study over 480,000 women with...

News Hour: Use of low-dose aspirin lowers the risk for preeclampsia among women determined to be at high risk during first-trimester screening, according to a study presented at a meeting of the Fetal Medicine Foundation and...