While medical professionals have long known breastfeeding positively impacts infant and maternal health, few effective tools are available to measure breastfeeding practices nationally. According to a new study, one preexisting government-funded program is a potential wealth of accurate data about the breastfeeding practices of low-income mothers…
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The weight-loss pill phentermine/topiramate (Qnexa) helps overweight and obese patients lose weight, but may also increase the risk for cleft palates in babies born to mothers who took the pill while pregnant, FDA reviewers said.
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High-quality early child care isn’t important just for children, but for their mothers, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin; the study appears in the journal Child Development …
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Breastfeeding is associated with improved lung function at school age, particularly in children of asthmatic mothers, according to a new study from researchers in Switzerland and the UK…
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Survivors of Hurricane Katrina have struggled with poor mental health for years after the storm, according to a new study of low-income mothers in the New Orleans area. The study’s lead author, Christina Paxson of Princeton University, said that the results were a departure from other surveys both in the design and the results…
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Working mothers may be busy, but they like it that way. A recent study of employed moms finds that most would work even if they didn’t have to, but they’re also looking for new ways to negotiate the demands of mothering and the pressures to be an “ideal” employee…
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(MedPage Today) — About half of teenage mothers who didn’t plan to get pregnant did not use contraception at the time they conceived, CDC researchers found.
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Mothers with jobs tend to be healthier and happier than moms who stay at home during their children’s infancy and pre-school years, according to a new study published by the American Psychological Association…
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According to a new UK-wide cohort study published online in the American Thoracic Society’s American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, the incidence of TB (tuberculosis) diagnosis is substantially higher in new mothers after childbirth, indicating that this group of women represents a potentially new target group selected for screening…
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The incidence of tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis is significantly increased in mothers postpartum, suggesting a potential new population to target for screening, according to a new UK-wide cohort study…
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