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January 12, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Healthy Babies Minnesota is an umbrella of activities aimed at using prenatal and first-year initiatives to make Minnesotans healthier throughout their lives. NewPublicHealth spoke with Edward Ehlinger, MD, the state’s commissioner of health, about ...
January 11, 2012 | New Public Health Post
Idea Gallery is a recurring editorial series on NewPublicHealth in which guest authors provide their perspective on issues affecting public health. Today, Jennifer L. Howse, PhD, president of the March of Dimes, comments on efforts to give more babi ...
October 21, 2011 | New Public Health Post
For the last few years, each annual meeting of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials has kicked off a yearlong President’s Challenge that focuses on a particular health issue impacting all states. Judith Monroe, MD, now the direc ...
February 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A short interpregnancy interval (IPI), the amount of time between the births of two children to the same mother, is a potential risk factor for autism. This article presents evidence of associations between short IPIs and the development of autism.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A drinking age of 18 is associated with slightly higher rates of low birth weight and premature babies, with babies born to black women affected more. Stricter drinking policies also may have unintended positive consequences a range of effects of lowering the drinking age should be considered before any policy changes are made.
December 16, 2010 | Journal Article
U.S.-born nonpregnant women are more likely to engage in harmful behaviors than their foreign-born counterparts.
August 5, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Just in time for World Breastfeeding Week, the American Academy of Pediatrics is launching their revised guide to breastfeeding, the first time the book has been updated in ten years. New information in the revised edition includes: New research on ...
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Women in Haiti use drugs that are harmful to their unborn child, sometimes in an attempt to induce abortion.
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Being culturally interconnected with others can be beneficial to a pregnant woman’s health and well-being.
May 6, 2011 | New Public Health Post
Heading into a very special Mother's Day weekend, NewPublicHealth pulled together some links and resources that celebrate Moms for everything they do to keep us healthy, wealthy and wise. National Women’s Health Week kicks off on Mother’s Day. The s ...