Out of the 8729 children included in the study, 1836 (21%) had been exposed to antibiotics during pregnancy (unexposed: 6893; Table 1). Type of antibiotics was only listed in a minority of children (n ...

The pregnancy analysis included 1,516,574 exposed and 1,186,516 unexposed before inverse probability of treatment weighting, and the infancy analysis included 1,925,585 exposed and 1,421,464 unexposed ...

Large-scale national data offer reassurance for families and clinicians that antibiotics used to treat infections in pregnancy or early infancy do not raise children’s autoimmune risk, though subtle ...

OXFORD, Miss. (WJTV) – Guidance related to antibiotics has historically been confusing, but research from an Ole Miss ...

Taking a certain class of antibiotics while pregnant has been linked to severe infant birth defects, according to a study published in The BMJ. U.K. researchers studied 104,605 children born from 1990 ...

A study of almost 1000 pregnant women in Zimbabwe found that a daily dose of a commonly used, safe and inexpensive antibiotic may have led to fewer babies being born early. Among women living with HIV ...

Taking antibiotics within the first two years of life is linked to a higher body mass index (BMI) in childhood, according to a new study. The research will be presented at the Pediatric Academic ...

Cystic fibrosis taught me to prepare for the worst, but pregnancy taught me to make room for hope and trust my body alongside medical care. Through my journey to motherhood, I learned that CF doesn’t ...

In this cohort study, we examined the association between maternal use of antibiotics in pregnancy and risk of CD in the offspring. The rationale for this study was the increasing amount of data ...