Posted on · Dr. Kjersti Aagaard of Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital shares some simple things expectant women should know about COVID-19 and the coronavirus that causes it.
Posted on · Physicians are urged to identify which pregnant women and new mothers are at high risk of depression and refer them to talk therapy before they show worsening symptoms.
Posted on · After a new study cast doubt on the number of pregnancy-related deaths in Texas, some Houston experts discuss the challenges of interpreting maternal mortality data and how to prevent the medical issue at its core.
Posted on · The Zika virus presents a lot of complications for public health officials, but according to a new study, one of the biggest problems is a knowledge gap.
Posted on · Federal health officials say pregnant women should consider postponing travel to Brownsville, Texas, because of concerns about mosquitoes there spreading the Zika virus.
Posted on · Doctors in the Rio Grande Valley have stepped up their observation of pregnant women following the first suspected case of locally-transmitted Zika.
Posted on · But they'll have to wait a while. The portion of the $394 million Congress allocated to help pregnant women find out more quickly if they have Zika isn't expected to get to strained labs until 2017.
Posted on · New rules proposed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and the state's Health and Human Services Commission would change the way fetal tissue is disposed of after medical procedures like abortions, requiring burials or cremation instead of long-standing procedures allowing disposal in sanitary landfills. But it would also apply to miscarriages or ectopic pregnancies terminated in […]
Posted on · State health officials say Texas Medicaid will cover the cost of mosquito repellent for pregnant women amid concerns over the Zika virus.
Posted on · By law, the public water supply is routinely tested to ensure levels of various chemicals aren't too high. That's not the case, though, with private wells, which some residents in the more rural areas of the region use as their source for drinking water. To learn more about water quality issues faced by those areas, […]
Posted on · We all know that drinking alcohol while pregnant can harm the developing fetus. But what about certain prescription drugs — which ones are ok and which ones are not? We talk with Dr. Lisa Hollier, a Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine about the do’s and don’t’s of taking prescription drugs […]
Posted on · Houston’s Courtney Benavides says new moms doing a thousand crunches to try and regain a flat stomach is a bad idea. It doesn’t strengthen them for the activities in their everyday life, and it could even hurt them. So she started Momma Strong.