But despite this being commonly discussed, scientists haven’t really studied it. Liz Chrastil, an associate professor of neurobiology and behavior at the UC Irvine Center for the Neurobiology of ...

New research involving 56 million pregnancies challenges vaccine theories about autism's origins. Gestational diabetes ...

Adriana Smith’s body was kept on life support for 16 weeks so her fetus could gestate. Abortion politics don’t capture the ...

Adriana Smith, who was 10 weeks pregnant in February when she was declared brain dead, was kept alive due to Georgia’s strict ...

A pregnant brain-dead woman in Georgia was kept on life support until her fetus was viable. Experts say it raises ethical and legal questions.

New research suggests that the unique way human placentas produce sex hormones during pregnancy may have been a key driver ...

Brain-dead Georgia mother Adriana Smith to have public funeral after being kept on life support due to pregnancy.

Researchers suggest that hormones produced during pregnancy, such as testosterone and estrogen, may have significantly ...

The placenta and the hormones it produces may have played a crucial role in the evolution of the human brain, while also ...

Adriana Smith’s story has highlighted the impact of Georgia’s restrictive abortion laws. Her premature newborn remains in the ...

A 31-year-old woman declared brain dead in February gave birth to a son in Atlanta. Her situation was complicated by Georgia ...