Timely preconception interventions for certain conditions can substantially improve maternal health and birth outcomes.

A stillbirth is the loss of pregnancy due to natural causes after the 20th week of pregnancy.

HPTs are highly accurate. But their accuracy depends on many variables.

Some factors associated with pregnancy are known to increase a woman's chances of developing breast cancer:

Eating healthy foods is more important now than ever! You need more protein, iron, calcium, and folic acid than you did before pregnancy.

Research shows that a mother's milk is affected only slightly by the foods she eats.

A growing number of women are asking their doctors for c-sections when there is no medical reason.

A number of the behavioral symptoms7 of autism are observable by 18 months of age, including: problems with eye contact, not responding to o...

To date, there is no cure for autism, but sometimes, children with ASDs make so much progress that they no longer show the full syndrome of ...

In about five percent of autism cases, another disorder is also present. Studying this kind of co­occurrence helps researchers who are t...