Women who smoke while pregnant are at a higher risk of having daughters who become obese and/or develop gestational diabetes, according to a new study published in Diabetologia. The fact that smoking is harmful during pregnancy has long been known, however, studies that examined possible adverse effects that last until adulthood are scarce and outcomes have been inconsistent...

Despite British media attempts to make it appear that all pregnant women will have to prove they do not smoke by taking a carbon monoxide test, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), which provides guidance to ensure quality and value for money in the National Health Service, UK, insists that the "NICE does not call for the test to be made compulsory and ...

Pregnant women are advised not to smoke during pregnancy because it can harm the baby's lungs and lead to wheezing and asthma, among other problems...

The fact that excess weight during pregnancy has negative consequences is not new information. A new study now concludes that the children of mothers obese before falling pregnant are four times more likely to have frequent wheezing, which is one of the symptoms of asthma, compared to the children of mothers weighing a normal weight...

Stillbirth rates in First Nations and Inuit populations in Quebec are higher than in the general population, especially in late gestation and at term, found a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)...

Babies born to mothers who smoke more than a pack of cigarettes a day while pregnant have lower reading scores and a harder time with reading tests, compared with children whose mothers do not smoke. This is the conclusion of a recent study conducted by researchers at Yale School of Medicine and published in The Journal of Pediatrics...

A new study shows that newborns that have been exposed to nicotine from both active and passive smoking mothers show poor physiological, sensory, motor and attention responses. Smoking during pregnancy has been linked to many different problems in infants like learning difficulties, attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity and even obesity...

Newborns whose mothers were regular smokers or were exposed to second hand smoke while pregnant show weakness in sensory, motor, physiological and attention reactions. A 2011 study revealed that smoking during pregnancy could result in babies being born with deformed limbs or facial disorders...

Cigarette smoke reduces the production of a Fallopian tube gene known as "BAD", which helps explain the link between smoking and ectopic pregnancy...

Maternal smoking can lead to lung disease in babies, including asthma. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Respiratory Research shows that maternal smoking-related defects within the alveoli inside the lungs of offspring are associated with a disruption in retinoic acid signaling...