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(HealthDay)—From 2010 to 2017, there were significant increases in the estimated rates of neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS) and maternal opioid-related diagnoses (MOD), according to a study published in the Jan. 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association. Ashley H. Hirai, Ph.D., from the Department of Health and Human Services in Rockville, Maryland, […]
Prescriptions for asthma medicines, whether continued or discontinued during pregnancy, are associated with premature births and small birth weight, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Sue Jordan of Swansea University and colleagues. The prevalence of asthma in pregnancy has increased worldwide in recent years and these […]
(HealthDay)—Obesity in pregnant women may impact the development of their offspring’s brains, according to a study published online Aug. 10 in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry. Megan E. Norr, from the University of California Berkeley, and colleagues assessed whether magnetic resonance imaging functional connectivity within or between fetal neural subnetworks varies with maternal […]
When Patrice Gamble’s seven-month-old son developed a runny nose, cough, and 102°F fever, she thought it was a cold. She brought him to an urgent care center where she was told “nothing was wrong” and that maybe, as a new mom, she was taking his temperature wrong. But when his symptoms worsened and his cough […]