Smoking is such a well-known hazard to the mother that it only follows that it is also harmful to the baby. Yet hundreds of thousands of pregnant women still smoke. Second-hand smoke from smokers who live or work with pregnant women can also affect the foetus. Exposure to smoke can result in spontaneous abortion, [...]

By Jeannine Stein, Los Angeles Times / For the Booster Shots blog September 6, 2011, 1:11 p.m.   Taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) during the early stages of pregnancy may be linked with a higher risk of miscarriage, a study finds.Canadian and French researchers evaluated 4,705 miscarriage cases up to the 20th week of pregnancy among [...]