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Smoking While Pregnant May Raise Autism Risk

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 17:21:15 CDT

If any expectant mom needed yet more evidence that smoking is a bad idea, here it is: Doing so during pregnancy raises the risk of having a child with Asperger's or another kind of autism, a new study suggests. Researchers analyzed data from about 630,000 kids born in the...

Pregnant Women in 50s Do Just Fine

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:58:16 CST

Women in their 50s who receive donated eggs have just as healthy pregnancies as their younger counterparts who do the same, a new study shows. In the largest analysis to date, researchers found that 101 women age 50 and older who used in-vitro fertilization had no more complications than women...

Teen Fakes Pregnancy, Fools Family, School

Matt Cantor — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 10:26:05 CDT

Month after month, as her baby bump grew, fellow high schoolers talked behind Gaby Rodriguez’s back—until they found out she’d never been pregnant at all. Instead, the 17-year-old faked a pregnancy, complete with a wire-and-cotton belly, as a social experiment at her school in Washington, the Yakima Herald-Republic reports....

Huckabee: I Didn't 'Attack' Natalie Portman

Polly Davis Doig — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 09:30:49 CST

Mike Huckabee will have you know that he didn't diss Natalie Portman's out-of-wedlock pregnancy— contrary to what you might have read in the "Hollywood media" —nor, for that matter, "did I criticize the hardworking single mothers in our country," reports Politico. He is, however, really glad she's going to marry...

Porn Star to Sheen: I'm Pregnant!

Polly Davis Doig — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:02:52 CST

Charlie Sheen might have wanted Kacey Jordan to babysit his kids, but probably not quite like this: The porn star is pregnant, she tells Sheen in a text that was magically leaked to TMZ. Jordan says she's pretty sure the baby's not Sheen's, and TMZ notes that he used protection—...

Celebs Flaunt Pregnancies —and It's Beautiful

Nick McMaster — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 15:47:26 CST

Model Miranda Kerr appears naked and very pregnant in the December issue of W magazine. The fact that it hardly seems newsworthy, however, is significant in and of itself: Over time, images like this have gone from being taboo to openly celebrated. And that's a beautiful thing, writes Tracy Clark-Flory...

Radioactive Cancer Patients a Growing Health Concern

Mary Papenfuss — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 04:06:30 CDT

Medical experts and lawmakers are becoming increasingly concerned about health dangers radioactive cancer patients pose to fellow citizens, particularly to pregnant women and children. People treated for thyroid cancer are given radioactive iodine, which can potentially present dangerous levels of radiation to those near them for up to a week....

Docs Stumped on Sex of Celeb's Baby

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 08:33:00 CDT

The Bachelor 's Melissa Rycroft can't announce to the world the gender of her baby-to-be because reports are "conflicting," she tells People . "We're not sure, hopefully in the next week or two we'll get 100% confirmation, she said. Rycroft isn't letting it worry her, though, and is deep into domestic...

Drunk Pregnant Woman Tries to Rob Taco Joint

Kate Schwartz — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:22:45 CDT

What's worse: Being drunk and pregnant, being drunk and pregnant and needing drug money, or being unable to get your weapon out of your pocket mid-robbery? A La Crosse, Wisc., woman—inebriated, with child, and in need of drug money—was arrested Tuesday night after trying to rob Taco John's....