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While extreme heat can be dangerous for anybody, pregnant women are particularly at risk — and according to a report released last week, climate change is making things worse.

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Pregnancy heat-risk days, as defined in this analysis, are days that are hotter than 95% of local temperatures from 1991-2020. Research shows that this heat threshold can bring increased risk of ...

People have one or two ultrasounds during pregnancy, but this varies from person to person. Some people may need more ultrasounds if they have any risk factors, complications, or need additional ...

Health Pregnancy’s lasting effects on different parts of the body revealed An "unprecedented view" of how the body changes during and after pregnancy has revealed many long-lasting impacts on ...

In a medical anomaly, a teenager without a vaginal opening became pregnant after giving oral sex. The anonymous 15-year-old from Lesotho, a country in southern Africa, went to the hospital ...

Pregnancy is a transformative time in a person’s life where the body undergoes rapid physiological adaptations to prepare for motherhood — that we all know. What has remained something of a mystery is ...

However, some of Hoekzema’s previous work has indicated associations between pregnancy-related brain changes and the ways a birthing parent’s brain and body respond and bond to infants’ cues ...

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