Prenatal cannabis exposure due to use among pregnant women is on the rise and may be associated with negative health outcomes in children, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Pregnant women with COVID-19 are more likely to have complications with pregnancy and birth compared to those without, according to research published in Plos Medicine.
Approximately 18% of children born to mothers who were highly-exposed to ultra-fine particles in air pollution developed asthma in their preschool years, compared to 7% of US children overall.
Pregnant women living within three-miles of a natural gas or oil well and exposed to frequent “gas flaring” had a 50% greater risk to give birth prematurely.
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Asthma attacks during pregnancy are associated with an increased risk of complications for mothers and their babies, a Canadian study suggests.
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Infants exposed to airborne fine particulate matter appeared to have a disruption in cardiac vagal...
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Pregnant women exposed to higher levels of the commonly used chemical bisphenol A (BPA) are more likely to have children who suffer with wheezing and poorer lung function.
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The number of women using cannabis in the year before they get pregnant and early in their pregnancies is increasing, and their frequency of use is also rising, according to new data from Kaiser Permanente.
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Children who are exposed to tobacco smoke from their fathers while they’re in the womb may be more likely to develop asthma by age 6, according to a study of chemical changes to DNA.
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Restricted maternal diets may lead to gene expression changes that may affect lung function in offspring, according to research published in Nutrition Research.
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At three months of age, infants whose mothers took 500 mg of vitamin C in addition to their prenatal vitamin had significantly better forced expiratory flows.
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Women who are unable to quit smoking during their pregnancy may reduce the harm smoking does to their baby’s lungs by taking vitamin C, according to research presented at ATS 2018.
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Exposure to elevated levels of carbon monoxide (CO) in utero increases infants’ risk of poor lung function at one month after birth.
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Billy Kimmel’s rare heart condition, tetralogy of Fallot, could have been diagnosed and...
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A blog post on the Hippocratic Post discusses sudden cardiac death in people under the age of 35,...
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