Of the 3.6 million babies born in the United States each year, around 80 percent begin breastfeeding in their first month of ...

A new article in Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology examines how the immune system and reproduction interact in female ...

It is already well-known that when a mother experiences inflammation during pregnancy, her child is more likely to develop ...

During normal pregnancy, the maternal immune system adapts to accommodate the semiallogeneic fetus and interference with this immune system may interfere with normal pregnancy.

Now, researchers are studying microplastics and/or nanoplastics (MNPs) during pregnancy to uncover whether these plastic particles negatively impact the immune system of babies in the womb ...

Human data on the safety of the more recently introduced adjuvants during pregnancy, that is, the oil-in-water emulsions MF59 and AS03 and the MPL/Alum combination of AS04, are limited.