More babies are delivered having been exposed to drugs at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center than in any other hospital in ...

More women are turning to marijuana to treat pregnancy-related illnesses, but experts warn of possible adverse side effects. Cannabis use is rising among pregnant women — especially during the first ...

FILE - A doctor uses a hand-held Doppler probe on a pregnant woman to measure the heartbeat of the fetus, Dec. 17, 2021, in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File) From Philly and the Pa.

Earlier this month I did a story on PICC, the Pediatric Interim Care Center in Kent, where newborn babies go to withdraw from drugs their mothers were taking while pregnant. It was a very emotional ...

Substance use disorder during and after pregnancy has become a major public health problem, escalating in tandem with America’s opioid epidemic.

JMIR Publications today released a report on developments in the evidence gap in drug safety during pregnancy in its News and ...

A panel convened in July 2025 by the Food and Drug Administration sparked controversy by casting doubt about the safety of commonly used antidepressants during pregnancy. But it also raised the ...

When Emma* decided to try for a baby, she began to come off some of the medicines she relied on to manage her Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. The complex condition affecting connective tissues has left the 35 ...

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More women are turning to marijuana to treat pregnancy-related illnesses, but experts warn of possible adverse side effects. Cannabis use is rising among pregnant women — especially during the first ...