The nonexhaustive list of things women are told to avoid while pregnant includes cat litter, alfalfa sprouts, deli meat, runny egg yolks, pet hamsters, sushi, herbal teas, gardening, Brie cheeses, ...

Mothers with intrauterine transmission of human cytomegalovirus (CMV) to their newborns despite preconception immunity had higher levels of neutralizing antibodies but had weaker antibody-dependent ...

—These investigators explored associations among early-life and in utero infections and cytomegalovirus-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children, with signs pointing to underlying immune ...

Laura Gibson is an associate professor of medicine and of pediatrics at UMass Chan Medical School. CMV belongs to the same virus family as cold sores and chickenpox and, like those viruses, lives in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Cytomegalovirus belongs to the same virus family, _Herpesviridae_, as cold sores and chickenpox. Callista Images/Image Source via ...

CMV screening and valacyclovir use increased after a landmark French trial. Find out how practice patterns changed in ...

Researchers at Tulane University have shown for the first time that mothers are much less likely to transmit a common virus known to cause miscarriages and birth defects if they are exposed to the ...

I read “Three letters every pregnant woman should know” (Ideas, April 16) with great interest. I was diagnosed with CMV 33 years ago while pregnant with my first child. I also had never heard of ...

Most people have had the CMV virus without even knowing it — and most babies are unaffected by it too. Yet it is one of the leading causes of disability in children. Unless you’ve heard of CMV, you ...

“Why didn’t anyone tell me about this virus?” is a frequent response I hear from parents upon learning their newborn is infected with cytomegalovirus or CMV. Although more than half of the U.S.

June is Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Awareness Month, and many parents have never even heard of it. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CMV is the leading infectious cause of birth ...