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April 1, 2016

'Strong scientific consensus' emerges on Zika link to disorders: WHO

Researchers are now convinced that the Zika virus is linked to microcephaly in babies and to Guillain-Barre, a rare neurological disorder that can weaken the muscles and cause paralysis, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday.

March 31, 2016

Mother's smoking during pregnancy affects baby's DNA

Pregnant women now have another reason to quit smoking - a new analysis links it to differences in their babies' DNA that mirror alterations in adult smokers and suggest how smoking might contribute to certain birth defects.

March 31, 2016

FDA authorizes expanded use of medical abortion pill

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has kicked up a potential abortion hornet鈥檚 nest with states that impose restrictions on a common abortion-inducing drug, approving a new label for the medication that relaxes guidelines for using it.

March 31, 2016

Alabama woman's heart stops while delivering identical triplets

An Alabama family grew from four to seven with the addition of rare identical triplets, but the delivery nearly lost one key member of the family: their mother.

March 31, 2016

Alternative therapy soothes Brazil babies suffering defects linked to Zika

Daniele Santos only wanted to comfort her boy, Juan Pedro, one of Brazil's growing number of babies born with a birth defect linked to the Zika infection his mother had while pregnant.

March 31, 2016

Even when women aren't obese, PCOS can mean pregnancy problems

Women who suffer from a leading cause of infertility that can be made worse by obesity may not be able to escape pregnancy problems just by maintaining a normal weight, a recent study suggests.

March 31, 2016

Early ultrasounds may not detect microcephaly in mothers with Zika: study

Three ultrasounds done in the early weeks of pregnancy in a Finnish woman living in the United States infected by Zika failed to show signs of brain damage in a fetus later diagnosed with the birth defect microcephaly, U.S. researchers said in a study published on Wednesday.

March 30, 2016

FDA permits use of test to screen donated blood for Zika

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said it would allow the use of an experimental test to screen donated blood for the Zika virus.

March 30, 2016

Massachusetts woman has twins a day after husband's death

Friends and strangers are rallying around a Massachusetts woman whose husband died unexpectedly a day before she gave birth to their twins.

March 30, 2016

US preterm births tied to air pollution cost $4B a year

U.S. premature births linked to air pollution cost more than $4 billion a year in medical care and lost economic opportunity, a new analysis estimates.