Healthy Pregnancy

For about 60 years, the prevailing view in Japan—the so-called “three-year myth”—has been that children should be raised at home by their mothers for healthy development until the age of three. However, research findings from the Tohoku ...

The notion that mental illnesses originate exclusively in the brain is increasingly being challenged by modern research. New findings suggest that crucial developments begin much earlier—namely, during pregnancy. At the heart of this research is an organ that has long ...

Cardiotocography (CTG) refers to the electronic recording of the fetal heart rate and contractions. The fetal heart rate recorded over the mother’s abdomen is the most commonly used method for monitoring the fetus during labor. A research team from the University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital (HUS) has found that external monitoring of the fetal