A healthy diet rich in vitamins and minerals is very important if you want to start your pregnancy right. In addition to eating right, there is one vitamin that is crucial as you try to conceive: folic acid. This little vitamin is so important that 15 of the nation's leading organizations have joined together under the March of Dimes to help spread awareness to women who could become pregnant...

It might be the first thing you've agreed upon since your wedding date. Finally, you and your spouse have decided that now is the time to begin "trying." You've agreed that you want to start a family. For many couples today, a preconception visit is the first step on the road to a healthy pregnancy...

So many fertility myths and half truths exist that it's difficult to tell what is true and what isn't. Read on, and highly qualified reproductive specialists will help you sort the facts from the fiction. 1. Birth control pills reduce fertility...

A new cancer gene mutation - ARID1A - has been found which links endometriosis to two types of ovarian cancer, researchers report in an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM)...

Postmenopausal women diagnosed with colon cancer may be at increased risk of death if they fail to maintain a healthy body weight before cancer diagnosis, according to a study published in the September issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...

The Alabama Department of Public Health is offering a Satellite Conference and Webcast program that will provide an overview of infant mortality issues that have faced Alabama for many years. The program, titled "Infant Mortality: Issues and Initiatives in Alabama," is scheduled for Wednesday, Sept.15, from 2 to 4 p.m. (Central)...

EMILY's List is launching a two-week television ad campaign in Nevada that portrays Republican House candidate Joe Heck as hostile toward women's health issues, Politico reports. EMILY's List, which supports female candidates who are in favor of abortion rights, is backing Heck's opponent, Democratic incumbent Rep. Dina Titus...

Malaria remains a serious global health problem, killing more than one million people per year. Treatment of the mosquito-borne illness relies on antibiotics, and the emergence of drug-resistant malaria is of growing concern...

Pediatricians, parents and media companies need to be more cognizant of the sexual material that children and teens are exposed to through television, music, the Internet and other media, according to a new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics, HealthDay/USA Today reports. These media may be contributing to the fact that the U.S...

Infants born to women who gain too much weight during pregnancy are more likely to become overweight children and adults, according to a growing body of evidence challenging earlier arguments that weight is mainly influenced by genetics, New York Times columnist Jane Brody writes...

Obese women who have bariatric surgical procedures before pregnancy were three times less likely to develop gestational diabetes (GDM) than women who have bariatric operations after delivery, according to new research findings published in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons...

Recent studies have shown that excessive weight gain during pregnancy can result in larger-than-average babies who are �prenatally programmed to become overweight children,� and more likely to develop heart disease, diabetes, and cancer later in life, according to a recent article in the New York Times.

A few months ago I wrote a just-for-fun, much-discussed round-up of ridiculous parenting products, from the insanely expensive to the useless to the just plain weird. The product that caused the most furor in the comments? The kid leash.

No Screaming Children Allowed at NC Restaurant September 9, 2010 2 by Kate at Parenting.com Enlarge Photo � Stephanie Rausser Share In July I wrote about whether or not child-free spaces were okay with parents. There were great comments on both sides of the debate, but one Carolina Beach, NC, restaurant has firmly taken a side. The Olde Salty's restaurant, along with lettering advertising "Steaks, Chops, Chicken & BBQ", has a glaring sign in the window: "Screaming Children Will NOT Be Tolerated!"

Everyone should have the experience of sleeping outside under the stars at least once in their lifetime. For a camping family this is commonplace, but for some kids it will be an exciting, new adventure. Summer is the perfect time of the year to experience sleeping outside under the stars in a backyard tent. It [...]

I am proud to say that I am a new Mom and also proud to say that I am really beginning to master this new role in life. Of course like all Mom’s I want to be the best there is, so during my entire pregnancy I read everything I possibly could about having and [...]

Obese women have a well-known risk for infertility, but a new Johns Hopkins Children's Center study has unraveled what investigators there believe is the mechanism that accounts for the risk. The research, conducted in mice and published online on Sept...

Obesity and infertility frequently go hand in hand. Now, researchers reporting on studies of mice in the September issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, might have figured out why that is, and the results come as something of a surprise. "There was a sense that the reproductive dysfunction was due to insulin resistance," said Andrew Wolfe of Hopkins Children's...

Fetal exposure to radiation and the risk of childhood cancer: what is the likelihood of a risk? A new study published in this week's PLoS Medicine aims to evaluate the possibility that exposure of a fetus to computed tomography or radionuclide imaging performed during pregnancy might increase subsequent risk of childhood cancer...

Obesity and infertility frequently go hand in hand. Now, researchers reporting on studies of mice in the September issue of Cell Metabolism, a Cell Press publication, might have figured out why that is, and the results come as something of a surprise. "There was a sense that the reproductive dysfunction was due to insulin resistance," said Andrew Wolfe of Hopkins Children's...