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 ...

North Dakota schools would be required to show students high-quality video of how a human fetus develops in each week of pregnancy under a bill Senate lawmakers approved during a vote Wednesday. The ...

A Utah lawmaker has introduced a bill that would require Utah schools to show students videos of fertilization and ...

Tennessee could soon become the latest state to require public school students to watch a three-minute computer-generated video on fetal development created by an anti-abortion group. The state Senate ...

Shoulder dystocia (SD) is a serious obstetric emergency that occurs when the fetal shoulders fail to deliver after the head has emerged during the second stage of labor. This condition can result in ...

Sen. Pam Jochum, D-Dubuque, speaks Tuesday during a news conference at the Iowa Capitol in Des Moines. Senate Democrats unveiled a number of bills on reproductive health care, including one what would ...

Even fetuses yawn, a new study shows. During the second and third trimester, fetuses yawn frequently, and those yawns can be distinguished in four-dimensional ultrasounds from other mouth-opening ...

University of Cambridge scientists say they have identified a key pathway that controls the expansion of the placental vascular tree in late gestation, demonstrating that fetus-derived signals are ...

Under the proposed law, schools must incorporate the video, or an equivalent, into their family life curriculum. This curriculum will cover topics such as human growth, development, and sexuality ...