For pregnant women, the flu can cause a wide range of symptoms. Doctors say it's rare for an illness like the flu to cause ...

1. Practice Good Hygiene Maintaining good hygiene helps you avoid infections during pregnancy. Wash your hands frequently with soap and water, especially before eating or preparing food, after ...

Preterm delivery, premature rupture of membranes, chorioamnionitis and postpartum infection are more common in pregnant women with untreated gonorrhea. [6] Gonorrhea is transmitted to the newborn ...

Infections during pregnancy are common, but the health care experts at Merck note that the most common infections cause no serious problems. Despite that, expecting mothers and women hoping to ...

These two factors contribute to the risk for sexual transmission and therefore to the risk of late-pregnancy acquisition of HSV. Most neonatal herpes infections are the result of undiagnosed ...

HIV infection during pregnancy poses significant challenges for both maternal and fetal health. The management of HIV in pregnant women has evolved with the introduction of antiretroviral therapy ...

Heartbroken mother-to-be says she only ‘sees complete darkness’ after losing babies she had been trying to conceive for so long.

NHS England appeals for 1.3 million eligible people to come forward for a new jab against respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) ...

The effects of both Covid-19 infection and the Covid vaccine during pregnancy on developing foetuses is to be examined as ...

Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection that was previously more common in Japan among men, has sharply increased among young pregnant women and newborns, alarming experts. One in about 200 ...