A woman and her husband are suing Juntendo University Hospital in Tokyo for ¥140 million in damages, claiming the wife suffered a uterine rupture and a stillbirth after she was administered drugs without her consent during delivery using anesthesia to reduce the pain, their ...
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 ...
While allowing female employees to take maternity leave is becoming the norm in the nation's private sector, women in politics can still face a storm of criticism even for getting pregnant. On July 12, independent House of Representatives lawmaker Takako Suzuki, 31, announced on her ...
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 ...
A Nagoya hospital will set up a project team to consider womb transplants for women born without a uterus or whose uterus has been surgically removed due to cancer or other conditions, the hospital said Wednesday. While successful uterus transplants have been carried out overseas, ...
French same-sex couples with children born to foreign surrogate mothers won a key victory Wednesday, with the country's highest appeals court ruling that the partner of the biological father could adopt his child. Surrogacy, when a woman carries a child for a couple that cannot ...
Women's table tennis icon Ai Fukuhara said Thursday she is pregnant and expecting this fall. "We're really pleased that a small life has come to us," the 28-year-old four-time Olympian, who married Taiwanese table tennis player Chiang Hung-chieh last September, wrote on her blog. "I believe ...
An estimated 2,600 women say they would take step to preserve fertility if financial help was available, health ministry research team says.
An Osaka clinic reports the successful births through a treatment in which a mother’s own mitochondria are injected into her eggs, but experts have voice concerns over safety.
A female giant panda at Tokyo's Ueno zoo has shown signs of being pregnant, including reduced appetite and longer sleeping times, the zoo's operator said. If 11-year-old Shin Shin does give birth, the cub will be the first giant panda born at Ueno Zoological Gardens ...
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 ...
