There's bad news for java junkies ... published in the July issue of Human Reproduction, smoking has a devastating effect on pregnancy rates of women undergoing fertility treatment.

Mariona Bustamante, a molecular epidemiologist at Barcelona Institute for Global Health, and her colleagues found that when pregnant women smoke, the habit impacts the placenta with consequences for ...

The dangers of smoking are many, but the problem gets exponential when pregnant women opt for it as their unborn babies are also at risk. The findings published in the journal CHEST suggest that ...

These incentives made even more of an impression on pregnant smokers, who were more than twice as likely to quit long-term if provided rewards, the review says. “Smoking is the leading preventable ...

Smoking is associated with well-documented threats to health and well being. Pregnancy presents an unusually important time to initiate smoking cessation strategies because of the motivation of ...