Almost any parent would like to help his or her children be healthier. For those parents or future parents who smoke, here's another reason to quit.

In the quest to find the cause of ADHD, anything a child is exposed to can be on the list of suspects. New evidence may mark one potential cause off that list.

Decorate the baby's room, buy baby clothes, plan for the baby's future. Planning for pregnancy can be hectic, but many women may want to ask their doctor about one more thing: thyroid screening.

In many cases, pregnancy and opioids don't mix. Still, many women may be prescribed these medications.

Premature babies are beating the odds — more and more are going home from the hospital after they're born.

Hormonal birth control methods are a routine part of many women's lives. And new evidence has tied them to a surprising condition.

Parents-to-be want their babies to be born as healthy and happy as possible. One pregnancy method is getting safer, which could enable more parents to make sure that happens.

Depression can take all the fun out of being a new mother. Researchers are trying to find better ways to diagnose the problem early.

An ingredient in your breakfast cereal may be preventing birth defects all across the US.

Giving birth is hard enough, so why add a surgery to the mix? A surgery once common during childbirth may be going extinct for routine births.