Dozens of new laws, passed during the 2025 legislative session, are going into effect July 1.Stripping Gender Identity ...

Air pollution has various adverse effects on human health, including impairing fetal growth and development. The placenta, serving as the interface between maternal and fetal circulation, plays a ...

Technological development positively impacting the quality of the ultrasound image, it is possible to observe advances in the study of pregnant bitches by obtaining a detailed assessment of fetal ...

Air pollutants might either directly penetrate the placenta into fetal circulation and the brain, 4 or indirectly disrupt the placental function and overactivate the maternal immune system. 5,6 In ...

Kansas schools are now required to show fetal development videos when human growth or sexuality is discussed. The law lacks specifics on implementation, leaving local districts with an unclear ...

Brain development in the womb is affected by the mother’s level of exposure to air pollution, researchers have found, although it’s not clear whether the brain structure differences observed ...

Reference: Gómez-Herrera L, Zhao Y, Rivas I, et al. Air pollution and fetal brain morphological development: a prospective cohort study. The Lancet Planetary Health. 2025;9 (6):e480-e490. doi: 10.1016 ...

More information: Ya'el Courtney et al, Choroid plexus apocrine secretion shapes CSF proteome during mouse brain development, Nature Neuroscience (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41593-025-01972-9.

For ultrasound evaluation of the fetal posterior fossa, it is important to keep in mind that Blake’s pouch is a normal embryological structure of the onset of fetal development that often disappears ...