Cholesterol doesn’t have the same clout as plenty of other heart-related biomarkers. You can’t check the amount of cholesterol (a.k.a. a waxy fat made by your liver) floating in your blood using a ...

A new Journal of the Endocrine Society study among women attending a fertility center found that those with more stress before pregnancy had higher blood sugar levels during pregnancy, which is a sign ...

Daily metformin use in the month before pregnancy is associated with more than 70% reduction in risk for hyperemesis gravidarum in first pregnancies. The protective effect persists in second ...

A new study has ignited the debate over whether every pregnant woman should take low-dose aspirin. Aspirin is cheap, widely available and generally safe, which makes it tempting to give it to everyone ...

Vaccination is the most effective strategy against measles and should be offered to nonimmune reproductive-age women before pregnancy, a narrative review of measles-related risks in pregnancy ...

A population-based cohort study evaluated the risk for spontaneous pregnancy loss and congenital anomalies in offspring of women exposed to computed tomography (CT) ionizing radiation before ...