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Study finds higher rates of cardiovascular complications among pregnant women living in states with most restrictive abortion policies.

A multidisciplinary group of researchers from Penn Medicine and CHOP have received a $50 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study the impact of environmental influences on pregnancy and children’s health.

Penn Medicine will serve a critical role in driving research to reduce pregnancy-related complications and deaths and promote maternal health equity through a new NIH grant.

New mothers with high blood pressure who participated in a post-partum remote blood pressure monitoring program were less likely to have post-partum health issues in the six months after delivery.

To reveal how the immune system may drive health and disease in pregnant people and better understand how to best leverage vaccines to ensure maternal and fetal protection from infectious disease, a team of researchers has been awarded a five-year, over $12 million grant from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ Human Immunology Project Consortium (HIPC) for the promotion of multidisciplinary investigations and the advancement of maternal health.

Fun and games could be a solution to serious problems like preeclampsia and hypertension among pregnant people and holds promise for significant progress, according to a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

Clinicians should not take race into account when diagnosing anemia in pregnant patients and pursuing interventions, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.