At least three children have been born in Brazil in the past three years after their mothers took the drug while pregnant.
Now, researchers in two different locations have found that a child's IQ tends to decrease in proportion to the mother's exposure while pregnant.
Female babies whose mothers suffer from lack of proper nutrition while pregnant may be more likely to become obese in later life, researchers have found.
Tennessee also is working swiftly to get a hold of the crisis, through both new laws and education about the dangers of abusing drugs while pregnant.
The plaintiffs claimed they were exposed to noxious gas fumes while pregnant and working in a southwest Mississippi office building located where a Texaco station once stood.
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Experts hope to reduce this figure to 15% by 2010 as women who smoke while pregnant are three times more likely to have a low birth weight baby.
She and her colleagues studied women who suffered from anxiety while pregnant and had them take a course on OCD symptom awareness and CBT methods to address potential symptoms.
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The study tried to evaluate air pollution exposure where the women lived while pregnant and where their children lived in their first year, comparing children with autism and children without.
The newly-announced CEO of the struggling Yahoo puts Mayer in the rarified atmosphere of being a woman head of a Fortune 500 company, and assures her a spot in history as the first hired while pregnant.
Carol Sadrozinske was told she might not be able to raise her son when she was diagnosed while pregnant in 1987, at the age of 23 (many people with MS are diagnosed quite early in life, with the peak of the disease coming at 29 or 30, according to Vollmer).
In 1997 Ruth Kelly campaigned for Bolton West, while heavily pregnant, and the baby was born 11 days after polling day.
The second officer was also seriously hurt, with a leg wound, while a pregnant woman who was passing by was slightly injured.
Despite the label's warning that women of childbearing age should use birth control while on Qsymia, there are concerns that women will still get pregnant while on the drug.
She is thought to be the fourth French minister to become pregnant while in office.
The only CEO in the fortune 1000 that has ever been pregnant while being CEO.
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And one friend told me that a friend of a friend was hired while she was pregnant.
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She's also urgently trying to get pregnant while propelling her reluctant husband into alcohol recovery and back to work.
However, if you can wait until your company is established, or at least avoid raising money while 8 months pregnant, I would suggest it.
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Prenatal care makes a difference too: If your mother smoked or was malnourished while she was pregnant, you're probably slightly shorter than you should be.
While eight months pregnant with her twins, Jennifer Lopez donned a black gown paired with a python belt cinched below her bust at a UNICEF fundraiser in 2008.
In this study, carried out in 2002, scientists from the UK's University of Edinburgh and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, the US, examined 38 women who were pregnant while at or near the World Trade Center when it was attacked.
While not illegal for pregnant women to visit the U.S. to give birth, the maternity homes themselves are illegal.
One Congolese refugee woman, Espe, who fled the war last week while nine months' pregnant, gave birth this week.
She continued taking the treatment while trying to get pregnant.
Lead researcher Professor Gordon Smith, an expert in obstetrics and gynaecology at the University of Cambridge, told BBC News Online that the ability of a woman to become pregnant twice while still a teenager was probably a modern phenomenon.
She got pregnant in 1981 while attending a Christian college and opted to have an abortion.
This history includes a bitter divorce from actress Denise Richards, who filed for the split while she was six months pregnant with their second daughter.
By all accounts, Spruill's mother got pregnant as a teenager while dating her then 15-year-old father.
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