Fetal growth restriction and extreme prematurity alter cardiovascular and pulmonary trajectories, with effects that persist ...

New customised growth charts for twins (GROW-T), adjusted for maternal characteristics, more accurately predicted a small-for-gestational age (SGA)-associated risk for adverse perinatal outcomes than ...

Twins—smaller at birth, on average, than singletons—start out smaller in pregnancy than was previously known, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The ...

In a remarkable example of advanced prenatal care and timely medical intervention, doctors at Ankura Hospital for Women and Children, Bhubaneswar, successfully managed an exceptionally rare and ...

Identical (monozygotic) twins develop from a single egg-sperm combination that splits into two. If the split is delayed, usually a week or so after conception, the processes of growing a placenta, ...