Studies and Trials

35+ min ago   (473+ words) PULLMAN, Wash. — Infants whose mothers smoked cannabis while breastfeeding showed the presence of volatile organic compounds in their urine, a recent study shows. The study, conducted at Washington State University and published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and…...

4+ hour, 11+ min ago   (500+ words) Parents often wait anxiously for the “right week” to deliver, weighing advice from doctors and their own instincts. For decades, gestational age, whether a baby arrives at 37 weeks or closer to 41, has been the focus of those conversations. But a…...

2+ hour, 5+ min ago   (326+ words) Seven molecules in human milk could help explain how a mother’s nutrition connects with her baby’s growth, offering a window into the biology of milk production. Human milk contains thousands of nutrients, metabolites, proteins, immune factors, and other molecules, yet…...

4+ hour, 10+ min ago   (300+ words) Could hidden antibodies in a pregnant woman's blood be responsible for triggering premature labour? A new study suggests that certain immune antibodies may contribute to early labour, potentially opening new avenues for predicting and preventing preterm births. Published in Nature…...

5+ hour, 9+ min ago   (580+ words) After years of fertility treatments to become pregnant with her first two children, 30-year-old Ashlee Amborn was shocked to learn she was pregnant with her third child just four months after her second was born. The solution, she said: a…...

9+ hour, 42+ min ago   (1638+ words) Preterm birth (PTB), defined by the World Health Organization as delivery before 37 completed weeks of gestation, remains a major global health concern with increasing incidence across most regions1,2. Clinically, PTB is categorized according to gestational age as late preterm (34–37 weeks), early…...

4+ hour, 42+ min ago   (698+ words) A registered EEG trial in preterm infants found that male voices, above all the father's, drove the strongest cortical delta-band responses to live lullabies, overturning the field's maternal-dominance assumption....

7+ hour, 9+ min ago   (694+ words) A three-decade Spanish cohort study shows that preterm infants whose serial cranial ultrasounds remain persistently normal face sharply lower risks of cerebral palsy and early developmental support needs, though normal scans cannot rule out later behavioural or educational vulnerabilities. For…...

12+ hour, 26+ min ago   (373+ words) While earlier research had found that neighborhood walkability is associated with a lower risk of GDM, until now the association of postpartum type 2 diabetes after GDM was unknown. The new study provides evidence that neighborhood environments may play a role…...

10+ hour, 50+ min ago   (643+ words) New research in mice and pigs shows that the placental hormone GDF15 drives fetal growth by activating a STAT3-IGF2 signaling axis in the fetal liver, and that placenta-targeted mRNA therapy can reverse fetal growth restriction in animal models....