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Very low food security, obesity, diabetes, smoking exposure, and low red blood cell folate concentration were reported by 6.7%, 33.8%, 4.8%, 18.8%, and 19.5% of women of reproductive age. HealthDay ...

SAN ANTONIO – A 39-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for shooting and killing a pregnant woman in front of her two children at a Northwest Side motel. Dillon Meckel was charged ...

Victim Katelynn Strate's 28-week-old baby "continues to do well under medical care" following the Sunday, Aug. 24, shooting, police said Becca Longmire is a digital news writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She ...

Pregnant teen Katelynn Strate, who was shot in a road rage incident, delivered her baby via C-section before dying, police say The newborn is in the NICU after Strate, 17, was killed in the Louisiana ...

A Schenectady County woman is suing Roblox, claiming the online gaming platform lacked safeguards that resulted in their 12-year-old daughter being sexually exploited by a child predator. The lawsuit, ...

For years, Danish doctors inserted intrauterine devices in Greenlandic girls and women without their consent, part of a painful legacy of mistreatment. By Jeffrey Gettleman and Maya Tekeli The prime ...

Two of three women of childbearing age in the United States are at heightened risk for birth defects due to at least one environmental or lifestyle factor — but these factors are modifiable, new ...

Two-thirds of women of child-bearing age have at least one lifestyle factor that increases their risk of birth defects These include low levels of folate, unmanaged diabetes, food insecurity and ...

COLERAIN, Ohio (WXIX) - More details in the 2023 deaths of a 26-year-old woman and her baby were released in court Friday as two of the suspects stood before a judge. Robert Ervin, 20, Kayvon Warren, ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WIAT) — Lipscomb police announced the arrest of a man in connection to the shooting that left a pregnant woman dead Thursday. Alfred Colvin III, 32, of Bessemer, is charged ...