TUESDAY, July 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Planned Parenthood clinics across the country will continue to receive Medicaid funding, at least for now. On Monday, a federal judge blocked a new federal rule that could have shut many of them down. The ruling, issued Monday by U.S. District Judge IndiraContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) — An ultrasound is typically a parent-to-be’s first glimpse of their child. New research suggests that the words hospital staff use to describe the fetus during an ultrasound can have an impact on later parenting — for good or ill. For example, if anContinue Reading
TUESDAY, July 29, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Women who carry a baby for someone else — also known as gestational carriers or “surrogate moms” — may be at higher risk for mental illness during and after the pregnancy, new research shows. “Our findings underscore the importance of adequate screening andContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A new IVF technique helped eight babies in the U.K. avoid serious inherited diseases, and scientists are calling it a breakthrough. All eight children were born using a method that uses DNA from three people: the mother, the father and a donor. TheContinue Reading
FRIDAY, July 18, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Doctors should ask diabetic women at every visit about their intention to have a child, to make sure they get the appropriate care prior to conception, new guidelines say. This will help avoid miscarriages and birth defects among women who have diabetes beforeContinue Reading
THURSDAY, July 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Some newer antiseizure medications appear to be safer for pregnant women to take without risk of birth defects, a new study says. Second-generation antiseizure drugs like levetiracetam, oxcarbazepine, gabapentin and zonisamide did not show an increased risk for birth defects, researchers reported JulyContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 16, 2025 (HealthDay News) — A federal appeals court has ruled that West Virginia can limit access to mifepristone, a medication used to end early pregnancies. The decision is the first of its kind and could affect how other states handle access to drugs that are approved byContinue Reading
TUESDAY, Jul. 15, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Women are more likely to have children in the same month as their own birth, and now researchers think they might know why. Births within immediate families tend to cluster within a given month, according to data on more than 10 million deliveriesContinue Reading
MONDAY, July 7, 2025 (HealthDay News) — More than 14 million children and adults will die from preventable causes during the next five years as a result of U.S. foreign aid cuts, a new study projects. Programs supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) prevented 91 million deathsContinue Reading
WEDNESDAY, July 2, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Taking time off work when a baby is born is good for dads and babies alike. But a new study finds that most fathers still don’t take much parental leave — often because they simply can’t afford to. Just 36% of new dadsContinue Reading
MONDAY, June 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — With early summer temperatures already setting triple-digit records across the East Coast, safety experts are sounding the alarm about the risks of leaving young children inside hot cars. Nine children have died so far this year after being left alone in vehicles in California,Continue Reading
MONDAY, June 30, 2025 (HealthDay News) — An experimental test can predict a woman’s risk of miscarriage, based on problems in the womb lining that occur prior to pregnancy. In some women, an essential biological process that prepares the endometrium for pregnancy doesn’t progress properly, increasing the risk of miscarriage,Continue Reading
FRIDAY, June 20, 2025 (HealthDay News) — Harried parents aren’t wrong to suspect something’s changed in what is expected of them when it comes to their children’s sports activities, a new study says. Modern-day parents are spending more time, money and resources on their kids’ sports activities than moms andContinue Reading
TUESDAY, June 17, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case next term involving a New Jersey nonprofit that runs anti-abortion pregnancy centers and is fighting a state investigation. At the center of the case is First Choice Women’s Resource Centers, which operates five clinics acrossContinue Reading