Just 1 in 30,000 pregnancies occur in the abdomen instead of the uterus, and those that make it to full term “are essentially ...

A doctor in Gaza says a fragile newborn boy became the second baby to die of hypothermia in recent days at Nasser Hospital ...

A Superior Court judge has ruled that a Connecticut family has proven “by a preponderance of the evidence” that Yale New ...

As the Amos report into maternal and neonatal safety finds an unacceptable standard of care in many wards. Radhika Sanghani and Victoria Young look at what happens when care is found wanting – and how ...

The mother, Suze Lopez, took a routine pregnancy test prior to a surgery. In what doctors in Los Angeles are calling a "medical miracle," a mother gave birth to a baby boy shortly after discovering ...

Who needs a delivery room when you’ve got a Waymo? Another expecting mother gave birth in one of the driverless robotaxis earlier this week. The autonomous vehicle company, which is a subsidiary of ...

Casey Britton holds her ten-month-old daughter, Aurora, who was born prematurely at 27 weeks gestation. MANSFIELD — Aurora Britton pulled the white, waffle knit bow from her head and tossed it on to ...

Editor's note: This article has been revised to clarify that Aurora was discharged from the special care nursery after about two weeks. The infant's fingers, tiny and frail, poked at her mother's name ...

NEW YORK — A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born. A loud chorus of ...

Katy Freeman, 39, was a senior leader at a health care company when she unexpectedly delivered her son, Ollie, at only 26 weeks pregnant. The next four months included a lengthy hospital stay for ...

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