"It highlights the importance these methods hold." Researchers reveal groundbreaking method to predict how childhood health ...

Discover the first in-utero treatment for spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) using risdiplam. Promising results show no SMA signs ...

MRI scans of human fetuses in utero—here, between 27 and 29 weeks of gestation—show the development of the brain and other organs and body parts. This story appears in the June 2017 issue of ...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder set in motion before birth. Scientists at St. Jude ...

Tess delivered at full term on Nov. 8, giving birth to a healthy baby boy. One shunt came out during delivery, and the other ...

“Real Housewives of Potomac” alum Nneka Ihim announced she’s pregnant with twins, but devastatingly lost one of them in the first trimester. The TV personality revealed she and husband Dr ...

Large-scale, longitudinal studies of humans whose mothers smoked marijuana once or more per week and experimental work on rodents exposed to cannabinoids in utero have yielded remarkably consistent ...

Pediatric surgeons at the University of California, San Francisco, have treated a second-trimester fetus with stem cells taken from her mother’s bone marrow. The baby, born in February, was the first ...