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Good Bacteria Aren't Present in Baby's Gut Before Birth

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Harmful Flame Retardants Detected in College-Classroom Dust

Healthy Eating Lowers Pregnancy Complication Risk

Healthy Living Helps Ward Off Deadly Prostate Cancers in Men at High Risk

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Heat Waves Far More Frequent Now Than in 1980s

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Herpes Virus Yields Up Genetic Secrets

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High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy Could Affect Women's Hearts Long Term

High Blood Pressure May Affect More Pregnant Women Than Thought: Study

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Hormone Treatments May Raise Blood Pressure in Transgender People

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How Climate Change Could Put More MS Patients in Danger

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How Moving the Homeless to Hotels During the Pandemic Helps Everyone

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HRT Might Help Older Women Ward Off Recurrent UTIs

Humans Bear Blame for Red Tides

Humans Pass Coronavirus to Deer, Creating Reservoir for Variants

Humans Started Loving Carbs a Very Long Time Ago

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Is Your Home Workstation Hurting You?

Japanese Scientists Discover New Disease Carried by Ticks

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L.A.'s Oil Wells Could Be Harming Citizens' Health

Lead Exposure Harms Kids in Many Ways

Leaded Gas, Banned Decades Ago, Might Still Harm People Today

Leading U.S. Ob-Gyn Groups Urge COVID Vaccines for All Pregnant Women

Legacy of Racist Neighborhood 'Redlining': Fewer Healthy Green Spaces Today

Lengthening Menstrual Cycles Near Menopause Could Predict Heart Health

Like Flu, COVID-19 May Turn Out to Be Seasonal

Live Near a 'Superfund' Site? Your Life Span Might Be Shorter

Living Near Oil, Gas Wells Tied to Low Birth Weight Infants

Lockdowns' Benefits for Air Quality Weren't as Big as Thought: Study

Lockdowns Cut Air Pollution, But Poorer Neighborhoods Benefited Less

Long Bouts of Space Travel May Harm Astronauts' Brains

Long Periods in Space Alter Astronauts' Brains

Lost Pregnancies, Diabetes May Be Linked

'Love Hormone' Could Hold Key to Treating COVID

'Love Hormone' Turns Lions Into Placid Pussycats

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Major Gene Study Looks at Origins of Bipolar Disorder

Making U.S. Cities Greener Could Have Saved Thousands of Lives

Many Babies Acquire Oral HPV, Probably From Mom

Many Breast Cancer Survivors Have Healthy Babies: Study

Many Psych Meds Trigger Weight Gain, But New Research Points to Better Options

Many U.S. Homes Too Cramped to Stop COVID-19's Spread

Masks Vital to Stopping COVID at Gyms, Studies Show

Massive Gene Study Probes Origins of Depression

Meat Production Is Dirtying the Air You Breathe

Mediterranean Diet May Cut Preeclampsia Risk During Pregnancy

Men More Prone to Cancer Than Women, But Why?

Men Often Die Before Women, and the Y Chromosome May Be to Blame

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Mental Health Trauma Plagues Wildfire Survivors

Microbes in Lungs Could Affect COVID-19 Outcomes

Microplastics Found in Mussels That Humans Eat

Migraines Tied to Higher Odds for Complications in Pregnancy

Millions of Tons of COVID Masks, Gloves Will End Up in Oceans

Modern Livestock Farming Can Pose Public Health Risk

Mold a Big Threat to People With COPD

Mom and Baby's Tale of Survival After Severe COVID Strikes in Pregnancy

Mom's Blood Pressure in Pregnancy Could Affect Child's Stroke Risk Decades Later

Mom's Exercise in Pregnancy May Help Baby's Lungs

Mom's Heart Health While Pregnant Could Influence Her Child's Health for Years

Moms' Obesity May Affect Fetal Brain Development

Mom's Pre-Pregnancy Weight Could Affect Odds for Child's Asthma, Allergies

Mom-to-Be's Flu Shot Doesn't Raise Autism Risk

Mom-to-Be's Gum Disease Could Raise Odds for Premature Birth

Mom-to-Be's 'Leaky' Heart Valves May Pose More Danger Than Thought

More Balmy Summer Nights, Higher Heart Death Rate in Men

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More Childbearing Women Having Suicidal Thoughts: Study

More Clues to the Genes Behind Hearing Loss

More College-Educated Women Are Having Children Outside of Marriage

More DNA Errors Seen in Brain Cells of Alzheimer's Patients

More Education May Slow Start of Early-Onset Alzheimer's

More Evidence COVID Raises Odds for Pregnancy Complications

More Evidence Flu Shot Is Safe in Pregnancy

More Fast-Food Outlets, More Diabetes in Your Neighborhood

More Middle-Aged, Older Women Getting 'Broken Heart' Syndrome

More Than 230 Medical Journals Issue Joint Statement on Health Dangers of Global Warming

More Trees, Parks May Mean Longer Lives for City Dwellers

'Morning Sickness' Doesn't Stick to the A.M., Study Confirms

Most Dog Breeds Are Highly Inbred -- and Unhealthy

Most Newborns of COVID-19-Infected Moms Fare Well

Most of Restaurant Menu Must Be Vegetarian Before Meat Eaters Make the Switch

Most Pregnant Women With COVID Are Asymptomatic

Mother and Son Draw Hope, Healing From Shared Cancer Treatment

Motherhood Doesn't Lower Survival for Women Who've Had Breast Cancer

MS Doesn't Put Women at Higher Risk During Pregnancy

Mutant Gene Stops At-Risk People From Getting Alzheimer's: Could It Lead to Treatment?

Nature Helped Many Kids Cope During Lockdown: Study

Need to Pee? Scientists May Have Found the Gene for That

Neighborhood Gun Violence Means Worse Mental Health for Kids

Neighborhood May Affect a Couple's Odds of Conceiving

Nerve Gas Sarin Probably Caused Gulf War Syndrome

Neurodevelopmental Issues Double in Babies Exposed to COVID in Womb: Study

New Clues to How Ovarian Cancer Begins -- and Might Be Prevented

New Clues to Sudden Unexplained Deaths in Young Kids

New Coronavirus Strain More Contagious, Scientists Say

New Drug Combo Could Be Advance Against Uterine Fibroids

New First Look at the Tiniest Babies' Lungs

New Genetic Insights Into Cause of ALS

New Hormonal Pill May Boost Outcomes for Older Breast Cancer Patients

New Insights Into What Might Drive Parkinson's Disease

New 'Mu' Coronavirus Variant Being Watched Closely: Fauci

New Polio Vaccine Promising in Early Test

New Research Links Another Gene to Alzheimer's Risk

New Tick-Borne Virus Is Spreading Across U.S.

Newborn May Have Contracted Coronavirus in the Womb: Report

Newborns of Moms With COVID-19 Face Little Infection Risk: Study

Newer Hormone Treatments for Prostate Cancer May Raise Risk of Depression

Newly Approved Drug Fights Lung Cancer Tied to Certain Genes

Nitrogen Dioxide, a Car Exhaust Pollutant, Is Raising Death Rates: Study

No Genetic Damage to Kids of Those Exposed to Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster: Study

No Link Between Antidepressants in Pregnancy, Epilepsy in Children

No Sign 1 Year of Testosterone Supplements Cause Heart Trouble: Study

No Sign COVID Raises Odds for Preterm Delivery, Stillbirths

No Sign That COVID Vaccine in Pregnancy Raises Birth Defect Risk

Normal Conversation Spreads Virus-Laden Droplets Beyond 6 Feet

NYC's Ban on Heating Oil Helped Clean the Air

Obesity Raises Odds for Many Common Cancers

One Reason It's Hotter in Poorer Neighborhoods: Fewer Trees

Over 60? You Have Billions of Potentially Cancer-Causing Cells

Over Half of American Children Have Detectable Lead Levels in Their Blood

Pandemic Affecting Mental Health of Pregnant Women, New Moms

Pandemic Could Complicate Hurricane Season

Pandemic Grief Can Come Between Mothers and Their Newborns

Pandemic Has Cut Global Carbon Emissions by 17%

Pandemic Has Many Women Holding Back on Motherhood, NYC Study Finds

Pandemic Has Pregnant Women 'Really Stressed,' Survey Shows

Pandemic Is Leading to More Depression for Pregnant Women Worldwide: Study

Pandemic May Have Created a 'Baby Bust,' Not Boom

Pandemic May Have Left Lessons on C-Section 'Preemie' Births

Pandemic Tied to Declining Birth Rates for U.S., Much of Europe

Pandemic-Linked Rise in Crime Hit America's Poor Neighborhoods Hardest

Pangolins Hold Clues to How COVID-19 Began -- and Might End

Pesticide Harmed Children's Brains: Lawsuits

PFAS 'Forever Chemicals' Cost the U.S. Billions

Pig Hearts Successfully Transplanted Into 2 Brain-Dead Patients

Pig Study Could Lead to Gene Therapy to Prevent Heart Failure

Placenta's Hidden Mysteries Revealed in MRI Study

Pollen Fragments Linger After Rains, Leaving Allergy Sufferers Miserable

Pollen Peril: Sneezin' Season May Up COVID Risk

Pollutants in Soil Can Harm Your Heart

Polluted Air Keeps Butterflies, Bees From Pollinating: Study

Pollution Killed 9 Million People Worldwide in 2019

Postpartum Bleeding Doesn't Have to Mean Hysterectomy, Experts Say

Postpartum Depression Can Do Long-Term Harm to Women's Finances

Postpartum Depression Rates Have Tripled for New Moms During Pandemic

Pot Use by Pregnant Women Rose During Pandemic: Study

Pot Use in Pregnancy May Harm the Fetus

Pot Use While Pregnant Tied to Higher Odds for Autism in Kids

Pregnancy Complications Raise Future Odds of Preterm Birth: Study

Pregnancy May Delay MS

Pregnancy Raises the Risk for Kidney Stones

Pregnancy Within 1 Year of Weight-Loss Surgery Carries Added Risks

Pregnancy, Delivery Safe for Women Born With Heart Defects

Pregnant Women Face Higher Odds of Coronavirus Infection

Pregnant Women Need to Guard Against Coronavirus

Pregnant Women Need to Guard Against Coronavirus

Pregnant Women Need to Take Care in Sweltering Summer Heat

Pregnant Women Pass on COVID Vaccine Protection to Newborns

Pregnant Women Show No Worse Symptoms After COVID Vaccines

Pregnant Women With COVID-19 at High Risk for Complications

Premature Delivery Raises Odds for Cerebral Palsy

Preparing for Flooding During Hurricane Season

Prescription Opioids, Antibiotics in Pregnancy Won't Raise Birth Defect Risk: Studies

Program Aims to Get Lifesaving Drugs to Kids With Cancer in Poorer Countries

Prostate Cancer Drug Could Be 'Game Changing,' Researchers Say

Race, Neighborhood Affects How Long You'll Live After Heart Attack

Racist 'Redlining' Policies Leave Legacy of Stroke for Black Americans

Rain or Shine, Allergies Are Tough. What's the Link to Weather?

Reassuring News for Women Taking Epilepsy Meds While Pregnant

Replace That Old Carpet to Shield Your Kids From Toxins

Saving the 'Butterfly Children:' Gene Therapy Helps Heal Deadly Blistering Condition

School COVID Outbreaks Drop When Adults Wear Masks, Study Finds

Science Brings Shortcut to Spotting 50 Rare Genetic Diseases

Scientists Discover Rare Form of ALS That Can Strike Kids

Scientists Gain Insight Into Genetics of Glaucoma

Scientists Get Close to Genetic Cause of Lupus

Scientists Move Closer to Mapping Entire Human Genome

Scientists Spot More Genes Linked to Problem Drinking

Scientists Test Safest Way Driver, Passengers Can Avoid COVID Spread

Search and Rescue Dogs Fared Well After Working at 9/11 Sites

Secondhand Smoke Is Sending Kids to the ER

'Secondhand Vaping' May Be Unhealthy — Could Public Bans Be Coming?

Severe Morning Sickness Linked to Depression Before and After Birth

Sex of Fetus May Matter When COVID Strikes in Pregnancy

Sharp Spike Seen in Air Pollution Levels in Recent Years

Silent Killer: Watch Out for Carbon Monoxide Dangers This Winter

Skeletons May Put Blame on Vikings for Smallpox' Spread

Skin-to-Skin Contact Could Boost Survival of Very Premature Babies

Skipping COVID Vaccine in Pregnancy Brings Big Risks to Mothers, Babies

Small Risk of Autism Seen in Babies Born Preterm and Post-Term

Smog Could Reduce Exercise's Benefit to Your Brain

Smog Harms Women's Brains, But One Food May Help Buffer the Damage

Smog Might Damage Your Sense of Smell

Smoggy Air Might Help Spur Sinusitis

Smoggy Air Might Raise Black Women's Odds for Fibroids

Smoggy Day? Exercise Still the Healthy Choice, Study Finds

Smoke From Nuclear War Would Trigger Massive Climate Change, Endangering Health

Social Media Messages Can Lower People's Meat Intake

Some Folks Do Age Slower Than Others

Some Older Breast Cancer Patients Can Safely Cut Down on Chemo

Some Types of Air Pollution Are Even Worse for Your Health

Some Younger Women With Early-Stage Breast Cancers Might Skip Radiation

Sperm Samples May Help Predict Autism Risk in Offspring

Spring Cleaning Can Sweep Away Allergens From Your Home

Spring's Double Trouble: Asthma Plus Seasonal Allergies

Stillbirths, Other Pregnancy Complications Up During Pandemic

Storm Alert: How to Keep Your Home Safe

Streetlights Could Be Harming Your Teen's Sleep, Mental Health: Study

'Stress Hormone' Levels May Indicate Severity of COVID-19

Stress Not Always a Trigger for Relapse in Eating Disorders: Study

Stressful Days, Worse Blood Sugar Control for People With Diabetes

Stronger Hearts, Better Outcomes in Pregnancy: Study

Study Confirms Restaurants, Bars Are COVID Infection Hotspots

Study Uncovers Large Collection of Genes Behind Schizophrenia

Study Zeroes in on How Zika Virus Is Passed From Mom to Fetus

Success of Smallpox Vaccine Bears Lessons for Coronavirus Vaccine

Summer Playgrounds Come With Fun and Hazards

Supreme Court Curbs EPA's Authority Over Power Plant Emissions

Symptomatic COVID Could Bring on Emergency Delivery in Pregnant Women

Take This Refresher on Skin Safety in Summer Sun

Testosterone Might Influence COVID Severity in Men

Testosterone's Ties to Success May Be a Myth

Texas Mother Transmitted COVID-19 to Unborn Baby: Study

THC From Pot Lingers in Breast Milk for Weeks: Study

There's Another Benefit to Hand-Washing During Pandemic

Thin Ice: Global Warming May Be Raising Drowning Risks

Thyroid Drug May Not Help After Heart Attack: Study

Time Spent in Nature Boosts Kids' Well-Being

Too Many, Too Few Babies May Speed Aging in Women

Too Much Caffeine Might Raise Your Odds for Glaucoma

Too Much Pot During Pregnancy May Endanger Baby's Health

Tougher State Gun Laws, Less Gun Violence Among Teens: Study

Toxic Lead Fallout From Notre Dame Fire May Be Worse Than Thought

Toxic Leaded Gasoline Is Finished Globally

Toxic Metals Might Affect Pregnancy, Study Finds

Toxins in Wildfire Smoke May Make Their Way Into Brain

Treatment Reverses Young Man's Type 1 Diabetes. Will It Last?

Treatment Reverses Young Man's Type 1 Diabetes. Will It Last?

Tree Rings Show Hurricanes Becoming Wetter, Longer, More Dangerous

Trouble Concentrating at Work? Your Office Air May Be to Blame

Two Out of Three California Prison Inmates Said Yes to COVID Vaccine

U.S. Air Quality Got Better During Pandemic: Study

U.S. Births Rose in 2021 for First Time in 7 Years

U.S. Leads Wealthy Nations in Pregnancy-Related Deaths

U.S. Maternal Deaths Spiked Upwards During Pandemic

U.S. Moms-to-Be Are Much Less Healthy Now

U.S. Rate for a Dangerous Pregnancy Complication Doubled in 12 Years

U.S. Wildfires: Much Bigger, More Frequent Now

Urban Air Pollution Drives Millions of Cases of Asthma in Kids

Vaccine Taken During Pregnancy Might Shield Baby Against RSV

Vaginal Bacteria Could Help Predict Risk of Premature Birth: Study

Various Mental Illnesses Share Same Genes: Study

Venturing Out? Guard Yourself Against Disease-Carrying Ticks

Want a Healthier Neighborhood? Plant a Tree

Want Less Violent Prisons? Plant More Trees

Weak Action on Climate Change Is Stressing Young People Worldwide

Weight Loss Can Help Cut Lung Risks in 9/11 First Responders

Weight Loss in Childhood May Protect Boys Against Future Infertility

West Coast Wildfires, COVID a Double Whammy to Lung Health

Western Wildfires Are Making Easterners Sick: U.S. Study

Western Wildfires Fueling Air Pollution During Summer Months

What If NYC's Cleaner Pandemic-Era Air Continued?

What's Behind Unexplained Epilepsy in Kids? A Gene Test May Tell

When Coal-Fired Power Plants Close, Kids With Asthma Breathe Easier

When COVID-19 Strikes in Pregnancy, C-Section Tied to Worse Outcomes

When Genes Raise a Mom's Risk for Cancer, Is It OK to Tell Kids?

Which Seafood Has the Highest Amount of Microplastics?

White Women Tend to Get Better Pain Management After Childbirth

WHO Calls for Global Registry of Human Genome Editing

Why a Newborn's First Breath Is So Important

Why Are More Women Using Pot, Other Cannabis Products During Pregnancy?

Why Are Some People More Sensitive Than Others? Genes May Tell

Why Do Black Patients Fare Worse With Blood Cancer Than Whites?

Why Do Black, Hispanic Newborns Face Higher Health Risks?

Why High Blood Pressure in Pregnancy Bodes Ill for Future Health

Why Is Stroke a Bigger Threat to Black People?

Why Some 'Super Ager' Folks Keep Their Minds Dementia-Free

Wildfire Pollution Puts Kidney Patients at Risk

Wildfire Smoke Can Send Kids With Asthma to the ER

Wildfire Smoke Can Trigger Eczema, Study Finds

Wildfire Smoke Causes Rapid Damage to Your Health: Study

Wildfire Smoke Is Especially Toxic to Lungs, Study Shows

Wildfire Survivors Could Face Higher Cancer Risk

Wildfires Are Changing the Seasonal Air Quality of the U.S. West

Wildfires Cause More Than 33,000 Deaths Globally Each Year

Wildfires Plus Heat Make Breathing Dangerous in America's West

Will Baby Have Allergies? First Poop Might Tell

Will COVID Pandemic's Environmental Benefit Last?

Will Pandemic Produce a Summer Baby Boom?

Will Vaccines Work Against the New Coronavirus Variants?

Will Warmer Temps Help Contain Coronavirus? Two Studies Say Not Really

Will Your Brain Stay Sharp Into Your 90s? Certain Factors Are Key

Windy Days Are Safer Days When It Comes to COVID-19

With Hurricane Season Here, Watch Out for One Carbon Monoxide Danger

Women Exposed to Racism at Higher Odds for Premature Delivery

Women With Type 1 Diabetes May Have Fewer Childbearing Years: Study

Women's Menstrual Cycles Tied to Moon's Phases

Wood-Fired Cooking a Cause of Lung Illness in Developing World

Workers in U.S. Southwest in Peril as Summer Temperatures Rise

Working From Home Brings Its Own Health Perils: Survey

Worried About Catching Coronavirus From Surfaces? The City You Live in May Matter

Worse COVID Illness May Mean Stronger Immune Protection After

You Don't Have to Be a Smoker to Get Lung Cancer

You Don't Have to Smoke to Get Lung Cancer

You, Your Family and Cancer: How Genetic Counseling Works

Young, Immune-Compromised Patients Are Hotspots for Coronavirus Mutations: Study

Your Dog's Breed Has Little Influence on Behavior, Study Finds

Your Genes May Affect How You'll Heal If Wounded

Your Height Could Be a Factor in Disease Risk

Your Plant-Based Diet Could Really Help the Planet

Your Sex Affects Your Genes for Body Fat, Cancer, Birth Weight

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