(HealthDay News) -- Prenatal vitamins are designed for women who are pregnant or who are planning to be pregnant. The supplements help ensure that the expectant mother and developing baby have the proper nutrients. Folic acid, calcium, and iron shou
MONDAY, Feb. 5 (HealthDay News) -- High blood pressure during pregnancy is a warning sign of diabetes and heart disease later in life, a Dutch study indicates. The study of 491 older, postmenopausal women found that those who had reported high blood
FRIDAY, Feb. 9 (HealthDay News) -- Black women are three times more likely than white women to deliver their babies prematurely, a new study reveals. Even worse, they are four times more likely to give birth extremely prematurely -- between 20 to 28
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Women with polycystic ovary syndrome who want to have a baby will probably have better luck if they take the fertility drug clomiphene instead of metformin, an insulin-sensitizing medication that helps induce ov
THURSDAY, Feb. 15 (HealthDay News) -- Children whose mothers ate at least three servings of fish a week during pregnancy had higher scores in tests of mental function in their early years. That's the conclusion of a new British-American study that c
TUESDAY, Jan. 23 (HealthDay News) -- Drug treatment may beat psychotherapy at relieving the major depression felt by many patients with severe heart disease, a Canadian study finds. The three-month study of 284 people who had already suffered heart
MONDAY, Jan. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Men and women in their 50s and older who take antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors may be doubling their risk of fractures, a new Canadian study suggests. SSRIs, such as Prozac and Paxi
