His father called it “a New Year’s miracle.” Laboring through sub-freezing temperatures, Russian rescue workers were digging into a sprawling heap of jagged rubble from a collapsed apartment building when one heard the faintest sound. It was the sound of life. On Tuesday, to everyone’s delight and surprise, they pulled a baby boy out of the rubble alive, nearly 36 hours after the disaster that blew apart his home.
Read moreMost Americans say it would be OK to use gene-editing technology to create babies protected against a variety of diseases — but a new poll finds they’d draw the line at changing DNA so children are born smarter, faster or taller.
Read moreRomanian authorities say the number of babies diagnosed with a drug-resistant superbug at a maternity hospital in the capital has risen to 39.
Read moreBrazilian doctors are reporting the world’s first baby born to a woman with a uterus transplanted from a deceased donor.
Read moreChina’s government ordered a halt Thursday to work by a medical team that claimed to have helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies, as a group of leading scientists declared that it’s still too soon to try to make permanent changes to DNA that can be inherited by future generations.
Read moreA mall security guard found vindication at Europe’s highest court on Wednesday in her bid for acknowledgement of the special risks she would face if made to work night shifts while breastfeeding.
Read moreA St. Louis jury on Thursday awarded nearly $4.7 billion in total damages to 22 women and their families after they alleged asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talcum powder contributed to their ovarian cancer.
Read moreBritish police say a health care worker has been arrested on suspicion of murdering eight babies and trying to kill another six at a hospital neonatal unit in northwest England.
Read moreA federal judge said Thursday he may hold a bench trial to resolve a proposed class action accusing UnitedHealth Group of violating the Affordable Care Act by failing to cover breastfeeding services for new mothers.
Read moreA clash between the authority of a sovereign Indian nation and non-native officials is shaping up in Florida, where tribal police entered a hospital in Miami to seize a newborn from her parents, a Miccosukee mother and a white father.
Read moreFour parents in Michigan jumped into a long-running ethical debate over the collection and storage of newborns’ blood samples by suing to force the state to destroy their children’s samples or retroactively obtain their consent.
Read moreThe Seventh Circuit emphasized its concern Thursday for the protection of unborn children from “uncooperative mothers” in a case challenging the constitutionality of a Wisconsin law that allows the arrest of pregnant women suspected of drug or alcohol abuse.
Read moreThe family of a stillborn baby boy sued the hospital where he was delivered for accidentally throwing the body into the dirty laundry instead of cremating it as promised.
Read moreThe Navy surgeon general on Wednesday called images posted on social media over the weekend depicting a Naval hospital employee abusing newborns “highly offensive.”
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An infant’s race or ethnicity affects the quality of medical care he or she receives, according to a new study involving critical-care units in California.
Read moreA former day care worker who was freed last year after spending almost a decade in prison on charges that she killed a baby claims police and a state’s witness fabricated a report finding that the baby died of shaken-baby syndrome.
Read moreA federal judge ruled that an insurance provider must face claims that it broke the law when it refused to fully pay for three women’s access to breastfeeding services as required by the Affordable Care Act.
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A class action plaintiff who sued Gerber over sugary baby food labeled “all natural” could not prove the company’s labels were deceptive, the Ninth Circuit ruled, granting Gerber’s petition for rehearing.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit revived a proposed class action against Gerber, saying the mom who sued it for labeling its sugar-laden baby food as “all natural” only had to prove the labels were misleading, not necessarily false.
Read moreA former Mead Johnson compliance director claims in court that she was fired for urging a full investigation of potential contamination of its Enfamil infant formula.
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