According to a study, female veterinarians doubled their risk of miscarriage because of increased exposure to anesthetic gases, pesticides and X-rays.

The study was conducted by the University of Western Australia. It serves as a warning for all young female veterinarians, who must know the inherent risks should they want to get pregnant

A new non-invasive prenatal DNA diagnosis to assess the baby's Rhesus-D negative (RhD) status can now save the RhD negative women from painful injections. Around 100,000 pregnant women a year are found to be RhD negative, posing risk for the baby.

Currently, all women who test RhD negative at routine antenatal checks are given one or two antiserum injections during the pregnancy. But scientists say an easy, rapid test to assess the baby's RhD status means more than a third of RhD negative women can skip the injections. Trial results of the test are reported in the British Medical Journal

According to a new study, the size of a woman's cervix at her mid-pregnancy may play a role as to whether she will deliver her baby through a cesarean section.

Lead researcher Gordon C.S. Smith, MD, PhD, from Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom, and colleagues from the Fetal Medicine Foundation Second Trimester Screening looked at the cervical length of 27,472 women in the middle of their pregnancies, about 23 weeks after becoming pregnant. It was the first pregnancy for all the women

Experts have expressed both confidence and concern on the health of a fetus of a transgender man who has just revealed his pregnancy.

Dr. Charles Garramoni, a Florida plastic surgeon who changes female bodies into male bodies, said there is a slim chance that Oregonian Thomas Beatie's baby girl will suffer complications due to Beatie's 10-year testosterone therapy to develop the physical characteristics of a male

Infants born prematurely have higher death rates in childhood and, if they survive, much less likely to have children of their own in adulthood, according to the largest study of prematurity ever undertaken.

The study, conducted using Norwegian birth data, raises questions about future risks for even tinier babies saved today by modern medicine. Previous studies have shown that premature infants faced many neurological and developmental problems, but the new findings to be reported Wednesday indicate that the problems persist throughout the child's lifetime