The new research project now aims to provide a holistic view of the significance of plastic particles during pregnancy. To ...

SINGAPORE: Research from Duke-NUS Medical School has found that foetuses have a functional immune system capable of fighting ...

While Zika has been reported in more than 90 countries, surprisingly little is known about what exactly drives Zika ...

A recent study published in the Pediatrics journal highlighted the long-term impacts of Zika virus (ZIKV) infections during ...

Results 71 articles met inclusion criteria and were included in this review. Sex-, gender-, and pregnancy-related disparities were identified throughout all four phases of the outbreak timeline. These ...

Researchers enrolled 148 mother-infant pairs, which included 79 Zika-exposed during pregnancy and 69 pairs who were not exposed to the virus during pregnancy, which constituted the control group.

Traces if Zika virus were "strongly detected in the fetal brain and weakly detected in maternal serum", according to the CDC report. Contracting Zika virus infection has been linked "to serious ...

NAIROBI, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A suspected outbreak of the Marburg virus in northwest Tanzania has infected nine people, killing eight of them, the World Health Organization has said, weeks after an ...

But because Zika—unlike most related viruses—can cross the placenta, Zika virus infection can have disastrous consequences in pregnancy ... be involved in brain development in the fetus ...

The mosquito-borne Zika virus is known for causing microcephaly, a birth defect in which abnormal brain development results ... have disastrous consequences in pregnancy. "It's a case of Zika ...