Like most women at the Gaza City hospital where she attends her pregnancy check-ups, Fatima Arafa’s face looks fatigued, a sign of the malnutrition affecting her due to wartime shortages.

Doctors Without Borders warned Friday that its teams on the ground in Gaza were witnessing surging levels of acute ...

At six months pregnant, displaced Palestinian woman Fatima Arfa wishes she could be buying cute clothes and toys for the ...

One of the nation’s largest crisis pregnancy center support groups is instructing its clinics not to perform ultrasounds on women suspected of having ectopic pregnancies — a potentially life ...

Certain tests and screenings may be scheduled during your pregnancy. Your health care provider will advise you on which tests you'll need.

Alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is a fetal protein produced in the yolk sac and in the fetal liver. AFP has been implicated in both ontogenic and oncogenic growth disorders 1. Although the main biologic role ...

Pregnant women with either low or excessively high levels of folate in their blood may face a greater risk of their children developing congenital heart disease, according to a study from ...

The AFP levels in our patient were significantly higher than the acceptable range during pregnancy, with the highest level of 41790 ng/mL. Furthermore, during dynamic monitoring, the tumor markers ...

Pregnancy blood testing. Levels of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) may be quite high with multiple pregnancy. Alpha-fetoprotein. Levels of a protein released by the fetal liver and found in the ...

FRIDAY, May 31, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) levels are higher in Black than White pregnant women, supporting the use of accounting for these differences in prenatal ...

A new study suggests a link between greater fluoride intake in pregnancy and toddlers with behavioral problems. Children in the womb exposed to higher levels of fluoride — a mineral found ...