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Very obese women should lose weight during pregnancy for a healthy baby: Current recommendations should be changed for underweight and very obese women
Very obese women should actually lose weight during pregnancy in order to have a healthy baby, contrary to current recommendations,
Prenatal marijuana use can affect infant size, behavior, study finds
Smoking during pregnancy has well-documented negative effects on birth weight in infants and is linked to several childhood health problems.
Parents may help prep kids for healthier, less violent relationships
Warm, nurturing parents may pass along strategies for building and maintaining positive relationships to their kids, setting them up for
Fluoride varnish in the primary dentition can prevent caries: Less caries with fluoride varnish application than without; benefit unclear regarding tooth preservation, toothache or dental abscesses
Whereas caries in adults and adolescents is declining, studies in children under the age of 3 have shown that caries
Mother’s depression might do the same to her child’s IQ: Study finds maternal depression negatively impacts a child’s cognitive development, infancy through age 16
Roughly one in 10 women in the United States will experience depression, according to the Centers for Disease Control and
Flipping the classroom approach in public health — does student performance improve?
A study conducted at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health analyzed the traditional model of education versus an increasingly
Maternal metabolic factors and early-onset puberty: Kaiser Permanente study the largest population-based research on topic
In a study of more than 15,000 girls and their mothers — all Kaiser Permanente members in Northern California —
Does age at menopause affect memory?
Entering menopause at a later age may be associated with a small benefit to your memory years later, according to
Heart defects in infant may predict heart problems in birth mother later in life
Women who give birth to infants with congenital heart defects may have an increased risk of cardiovascular hospitalizations later in