The bill previously passed on a 10-3 vote Feb. 10 in the House Health and Human Services committee, a 52-10 vote Feb. 12 in the House, and a 6-1 vote in the Senate Health and Human Services committee ...

This recently published study may have found a link between exercise during pregnancy and infant development.

The specialist explains how the environment during pregnancy influences how a baby’s brain prepares to enter the world.

University of New Mexico researchers have found that even low to moderate alcohol use by pregnant patients may contribute to subtle changes in their babies' prenatal development, including lower birth ...

A new study from Spain reveals that babies born to mothers exposed to higher air pollution levels in pregnancy show signs of slower brain myelination, a subtle but telling shift in how early brain ...

Significant differences in the gene activity of the fetal intestine, brain and placenta were identified, depending on the microbes in the mother's body and the compounds produced by them. The findings ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Iowa schools would have to show ultrasound videos and computer-generated graphics on fetal development in Iowa classrooms under legislation sent to the ...