Nearly half of all newborns admitted to U.S. neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are of normal birth weight, and a new study out of Dartmouth University links the increase to the robust expansion of ...

The ‘fetal origin hypothesis’ suggests that metabolic diseases are directly related to poor nutritional status in early life. Thus, a high birth weight (HBW) may pose a lower risk than normal birth ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Taller women who participate in regular physical exercise during pregnancy may deliver lighter babies, but still within the "normal" birth weight range, which could have ...

Being born at below-normal weight is associated with a lower intelligence quotient (IQ) not only in childhood and young adulthood, but even at age 50, according to a new study from Denmark.

Should pregnant Australian women be worried? Australia’s system of maternity care has a great deal in common with the British National Health Service. Could ideology be putting expectant mothers – and ...