Keepsake sonograms have become a popular item with many young parents -- from Tom Cruise to the couple next door. It's a practice many physicians would like to discourage. The latest concern comes ...

A new study shows oxygenation levels in the placenta, formed during the last three months of fetal development, are an important predictor of cortical growth (development of the outermost layer of the ...

A team of more than 200 researchers around the world, involving multiple health and scientific institutions, led by the University of Oxford, has published the first digital atlas showing the dynamics ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) deep learning is rapidly emerging as an innovative diagnostic tool for life sciences and health care. A new study demonstrates how AI deep learning can be used to diagnose ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — University Hospitals has opened a specialty clinic that screens high-risk pregnancy patients for fetal abnormalities during the first trimester — up to seven weeks earlier than a ...

Fetal echo is short for fetal echocardiogram, an ultrasound test doctors use to look for congenital heart disease (CHD). This disease affects around 1% of births each year and encompasses a wide range ...

Exposure to ultrasound can affect fetal brain development, a new study suggests. But researchers say the findings, in mice, should not discourage pregnant women from having ultrasound scans for ...