For the first time, doctors have successfully performed fetal brain surgery to treat a rare blood vessel abnormality that can be fatal to newborns. Experts said the accomplishment, for a condition ...

A baby girl was operated on before she was born. This article is from The Checkup, MIT Technology Review's weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, sign up here. She ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Fetal Care Center Dallas and its founding partner, maternal-fetal specialist Kevin Magee, M.D., have been selected by Samsung to employ the first Hera Z20 in the U.S., the ...

Immune activation in a pregnant woman can occur in response to metabolic diseases like obesity, infections in pregnancy, exposure to pollution and environmental toxins, or even stress and can have ...

In a recent study published in Nature, researchers created a comprehensive digital atlas of fetal brain maturation from a large cohort, detailing structural growth and folding from early pregnancy to ...

Fetuses more exposed to certain air pollutants show changes in the size of specific brain structures, particularly during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy. This is the main finding of a ...

Medical ultrasound is widely known. Cardiologists use it to check the heart is pumping normally. Ophthalmologists use it to check for detached retinas and for tumors. But its most familiar application ...