The umbilical cord is your baby’s lifeline in the womb, as it provides oxygen and all the vital nutrients through a blood ...

Your body supplies the vital elements to your growing baby during pregnancy. It creates a lifeline so that the blood can flow seamlessly between you and your baby, but how does that happen? This blog ...

Cholesterol doesn’t have the same clout as plenty of other heart-related biomarkers. You can’t check the amount of cholesterol (a.k.a. a waxy fat made by your liver) floating in your blood using a ...

An interview with a Trenton Central High School coed about her issues with a new phone policy produced an alternate angle. Being 17 years old with a one-year-old son makes not having phone use for ...

Heart-related health problems might affect as many as 1 in 7 pregnancies, even among women without any prior heart disease, a new study says. Researchers found a steady increase in heart-related ...

1 Department of Obstetrics, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Dongguan, Guangdong, China 2 Department of Ultrasound, The Sixth Affiliated Hospital of Jinan University, Dongguan, ...

A mess of changing, sometimes contradictory, vaccine guidelines this year has made it confusing to tell whether you can or should get a COVID-19 shot—especially if you’re pregnant. Both the FDA and ...

Who knew prenatal pics could be up for grabs? On Japan's Mercari app, strangers' ultrasounds once sold for pocket change. Darren Brode - stock.adobe.com Think buying a photo of someone else’s unborn ...

A mom to be could barely believe what she was seeing when she went for an ultrasound to get a closer look at her unborn twins. Michelle de Bruijn, from Amsterdam in the Netherlands, was 14 weeks ...

It can be difficult to decide whether to expedite birth when a woman in the final stage of pregnancy perceives less fetal movements. An additional ultrasound measurement to assess resistance infetal ...

RICHMOND, Va. — The dangerous heat that's been blanketing our region is sending more people to emergency rooms. Doctors say pregnant women face special risks during these extreme temperatures.