Artificially-caffeinated drinks such as sodas and energy drinks may soon receive health warning labels, a possible result of the state advisory board's recommendation of a close study of the drinks' effects on people's health.

According to reports, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment announced on Monday that it is considering placing warning labels on the mentioned drinks should the study find that caffeine is actually a harmful substance

The number of pregnant Thai women infected with AIDS slightly increased with 720 cases reported in about 800,000 pregnancies in 2006, according to the latest Ministry of Public Health survey.

Measures are urgently needed to protect pregnant women because of its implication on Thailand's reproduction rate, said Deputy Public Health Minister Dr. Morakot Kornkasem, adding that 1,440 couples could be infected with the deadly virus annually

During a two-day meeting in Hawaii, the nation's largest doctors' group worked on new ethical guidelines on how doctors should encourage pregnant women about donating their babies' umbilical cord blood.

Under the new guidelines, the American Medical Association said doctors will ideally obtain their patient's consent to donate the baby's cord blood before the mother goes into labor

Pregnant women with pre-eclampsia have a greater risk of heart disease in the future, according to two new studies.

Pre-eclampsia is a serious condition during which a pregnant woman's blood pressure increases to an abnormal level and can pose danger to the mother and her unborn baby. It affects about five percent of all first time pregnancies

A protein in the pancreas may offer new clues on how diabetes develops during pregnancy, say Stanford University Medical Center researchers.

A new study of mice shows that during pregnancy the pancreas has less of the protein called menin, which prevents cancer in the pancreas and other organs by blocking the growth of pancreatic cells