Taking a common vitamin supplement could significantly reduce the number of miscarriages and birth defects worldwide, Australian scientists said Thursday, in what they described as a major breakthrough in pregnancy research. The study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that deficiency in ...
Something was in the air in the small Ohio town of Twinsburg, founded by identical twins 200 years ago: On Saturday, endless sets of twins made the singly born feel out of place. Though the Twins Days Festival is open to all those of multiple ...
A Cambodian court on Thursday sentenced an Australian nurse to 18 months in prison for sourcing clients for a surrogacy clinic in the impoverished kingdom, as authorities tackle "womb for rent" businesses. Tammy Davis-Charles, 49, has been in custody since her arrest in November last ...
An estimated 2,600 women say they would take step to preserve fertility if financial help was available, health ministry research team says.
Researchers are creating an artificial womb to improve care for extremely premature babies — and remarkable animal testing suggests it closely mimics the real thing. Today, premature infants weighing as little as half a kilogram are hooked to ventilators and other machines inside incubators. Children's Hospital ...
Babies cry more in Britain, Canada, Italy and Netherlands than in other countries, while newborns in Denmark, Germany and Japan cry and fuss the least, researchers said Monday. In research looking at how much babies around the world cry in their first three months, psychologists ...
A new smartphone device can analyze a man's sperm quality and let him know in a matter of minutes whether he suffers from infertility, U.S. researchers said Wednesday. Infertility affects more than 45 million couples worldwide. Over 40 percent of fertility problems are due to ...
China's decision to allow all couples to have two children instead of one has resulted in birthrates rising to the highest level since 2000, a government official said. New births in the world's most populous nation reached 17.86 million in 2016, up around 1.4 million ...
China will add 89,000 new hospital beds and train 140,000 new obstetricians and nurses in order to deal with the strains on its health care system brought about in part by the relaxation of its "one-child policy," state media said on Wednesday. Worried about its ...
A Dutch medical institution announced an investigation Tuesday after discovering that up to 26 women may have been fertilized by the wrong sperm cells at its IVF treatment laboratory. A "procedural error" between mid-April 2015 and mid-November 2016 during the in vitro fertilization was to ...
Living in Beijing for 23 years, Li Xue has never attended school, not even for a day. China provides a free, nine-year education to every child but Li was not included. For the past 23 years, she has had no access to any form of ...
British scientists on Wednesday approved the use of so-called "three-parent baby" fertility treatments, paving the way for the country to become the first in the world to officially introduce the procedures. An independent panel of experts tasked with reviewing the safety of mitochondrial gene therapy ...
