GLP-1 drugs and pregnancy: Who may face higher preterm birth risk

Weight loss drugs have been linked to an increased risk of premature births among women who took them inadvertently just ...

Abortion bans led to higher preterm birth rates among Black women, study finds

Black women living in states with abortion bans were more likely to have preterm babies, compared with what would be expected ...

Pregnancy changes the brain, and we are only beginning to understand how and why

Millions of women go through pregnancy every year, yet science has only just begun to look at what it does to the brain—the ...
South Carolina Public Radio

Reducing risk of preterm birth

This week, Bobbi Conner talks with Dr. Charles Rittenberg about reducing risk of preterm birth. Dr. Rittenberg is an ...
Yahoo

Pregnant Woman Gives Birth on Floor of Her Mom’s Pickup Truck: 'She Fell on the Floor, I Was Freaking Out'

A Los Angeles mother unexpectedly gave birth to her baby girl on the floor of a pickup truck after failing to make it to the hospital. Sandi Mendoza, 27, went into labor with her third child at her ...
MedPage Today

Interim Safety Data Reassure on RSV Vaccine in Pregnant Women

The bivalent prefusion F subunit-based RSV vaccine includes a "warning to inform" pregnant women about a numerical imbalance in preterm births in the pivotal MATISSE trial. Results from an interim ...
al.com

Pregnant women could delay prison time until after they give birth under new bill

A bill that would allow pregnant women sentenced to incarceration to defer their sentences until after the birth of their child recently advanced out of the Alabama House Judiciary Committee. “Alabama ...