For many pregnant women, it’s inevitable. As their pregnancy progresses, tasks that involve the low back often get more difficult. It is harder to bend over, lift, sit or walk for long periods of time, and back pain increases. Treating back pain, and improving daily function relative to tasks that involve the low back is [...]

AAN.com - Drinking milk (and obtaining more vitamin D) during pregnancy may help reduce your baby’s chances of developing multiple sclerosis (MS) as an adult, according to a preliminary study to be presented at the American Academy of Neurology’s 62nd Annual Meeting in April 2010.
The study involved 35,794 nurses whose mothers completed a questionnaire in [...]

AFTAU.org - The music that preemies listen to doesn’t have any lyrics that tell them to grow, but new research finds that premature babies who are exposed to music by 18th-century composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gain weight faster - and therefore become stronger - than those who don’t.
A new study carried out by Dr. Dror [...]

SLU.edu - Recent recommendations by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) call for women who are overweight or obese to gain more weight than during pregnancy they should, a Saint Louis University obstetrician wrote in a January 2010 commentary for Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Joined by several colleagues, Raul Artal, M.D., chair of the department of obstetrics, gynecology [...]

A new article published in the peer-reviewed journal Women’s Health emphasizes the importance of early pregnancy detection, and reviews data that shows not all at-home pregnancy tests are created equal - First Response® brand pregnancy tests are more sensitive and able to detect key variants of the pregnancy hormone better than other at home pregnancy [...]

URMC.Rochester.edu - A study of 145 preschool children reports, for the first time, that when the concentrations of two common phthalates in mothers’ prenatal urine are elevated their sons are less likely to play with male-typical toys and games, such as trucks and play fighting.
The study by the University of Rochester Medical Center was supported [...]