In the United States, pregnant women are increasingly being exposed to harmful chemicals found in plastics, pesticides and beauty products that can negatively impact fetal development. A new study ...

In a recent study posted to the medRxiv* preprint server, researchers in the United States evaluated the effects of maternal coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic-associated stress and fetal ...

A new study maps how prenatal stress alters immune signalling in the developing brain at a level of detail not seen before ...

Drinking any amount of alcohol during pregnancy was associated with changes and delays in fetal brain development, according to data presented at the Radiological Society of North America annual ...

Endometriosis is associated with higher in utero estradiol exposure and higher estrogen-to-androgen ratios in female offspring umbilical cord blood.