USPSTF reviews evidence to update recommendations on iron supplementation and deficiency screening in pregnant women

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) reviewed published evidence to update its recommendations on iron supplementation and screening for iron deficiency anemia in pregnant women.

Excessive vitamin intake in pregnant rats impacts food choices in offspring

A research group at the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine has been using a rat model to see how maternal intake of above-requirement vitamins (A, D…

Preventing metabolic disease may start in the womb… of your grandmother

No one wants to have child who is born underweight, but for numerous reasons, this may be unavoidable.

Female diet alters the nutrient composition of fluid in the womb

Scientists at the University of Southampton’s Faculty of Medicine have discovered that maternal diet affects the nutrient composition of fluid in the womb of women and thus may aid in the…

Impact of probiotics on metabolic health in women with gestational diabetes

In a study to be presented on Feb. 5 in an oral concurrent session at 1:15 p.m.

Stress during pregnancy can affect fetal development

Stress hormones in the mother can affect foetal development, according to a study published in the Journal of Physiology.

Eating fish during pregnancy may boost baby’s development, not impair it

Although the FDA warn pregnant women against eating fish more than twice a week, a new study finds that the benefits associated with fish may offset the potential harms.

Iodine deficiency in pregnant women impairs embryonic brain development

Pregnant women in Austria commonly suffer from an iodine deficiency. This may have a negative impact on the development of their unborn child’s brain.

1,300 babies each year saved from serious birth defects of brain and spine by folic acid

Fortifying grain foods with the B vitamin folic acid has saved about 1,300 babies every year from being born with serious birth defects of the brain and spine known as neural tube defects (NTDs)…

High-fat diet, obesity during pregnancy harms stem cells in developing fetus

Physician-scientists at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital reveal a high-fat diet and obesity during pregnancy compromise the blood-forming, or hematopoietic, stem cell system in the fetal liver…

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