UNLV promoted Miki Sudo as the headliner for its donut-eating contest at Friday night's college football game in Las Vegas. However, she bailed on her ...

People who are pregnant often experience insomnia, or trouble falling or staying asleep. Though it can occur in the first trimester, insomnia is not a reliable indication that you are pregnant. It is ...

Pregnant women across Australia could be offered a free vaccine to protect their babies against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) from next year. Health Minister Mark Butler has flagged the ...

While there is no scientific evidence linking lunar eclipses to pregnancy complications, some cultures advise pregnant women to take certain precautions during this celestial event for added ...

Researchers have created one of the first comprehensive maps of how the brain changes throughout pregnancy, substantially improving upon understanding of an understudied field. Certain brain ...

(Courtesy Liz Chrastil via AP) Neuroscientist Liz Chrastil got the unique chance to see how her brain changed while she was pregnant and share what she learned in a new study that offers the first ...

With a team of collaborators who have also studied the brain during menopause and the menstrual cycle, she slid into the scanner 26 times — before, during and after her pregnancy — providing ...

Pregnancy overhauls a woman’s body. The brain is no exception. A detailed study of a woman’s brain before, during and after pregnancy revealed sweeping neural changes, some of which stuck ...

Pregnancy is a transformative time in a person’s life where the body undergoes rapid physiological adaptations to prepare for motherhood — that we all know. What has remained something of a mystery is ...

As hormones surge, some brain areas shrink in what scientists say may be a fine-tuning that helps mothers bond with and care for their babies. By Pam Belluck Pam Belluck covers brain health ...