Pregnant women often deny smoking.
Overall, about one in four women who smoke while pregnant deny it, a new study hints. The numbers could be even higher in certain groups of women, like those in their early 20s.
Mercury cancels brain benefits of fish oil, study confirms.
Prenatal mercury exposure from a mother's fish-rich diet can reduce the beneficial effects fish oil has on brain development, report an international group of researchers. The babies exposed in the womb to higher methyl mercury levels scored lower on s...
Eating lots of red meat ups women’s stroke risk.
Women who eat a lot of red meat may be putting themselves at increased risk of stroke, a new study in more than 30,000 Swedish women hints.
Pollutants’ passage from mother to child.
An international team of researchers has for the first time quantified how effectively mothers pass 87 common environmental contaminants to their children.
