Covid Blamed for Biggest Drop in French Births In 45 Years
The number of babies born in France in January fell by 13%, the biggest drop in 45 years which statisticians on Thursday linked to the coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreThe number of babies born in France in January fell by 13%, the biggest drop in 45 years which statisticians on Thursday linked to the coronavirus pandemic.
Read moreNew York’s high court brought grandparents under the immediate-family umbrella for emotional distress damages, urging what it called “common sense.”
Read moreA baby has been born following a uterus transplant for the first time ever in France, the hospital treating mother and infant said Wednesday.
Read moreA California woman sued Kern Medical Center claiming doctors there sent her home even though she was having contractions, and she woke the next morning to find her baby had been born and was dead.
Read moreLawmakers say manufacturers exploited the lack of federal regulation to set dangerously high internal standards for toxic heavy metal levels.
Read moreRosa Olvera Jimenez has maintained her innocence since she was arrested in 2003 and a jury convicted her of murder for the death of a boy who choked on paper towels while she was babysitting him.
Read moreAn appeals court in Texas ruled that a woman was properly awarded damages in her emotional distress and deceptive trade practices suit against a funeral home that allegedly buried her newborn daughter in a “food cooler wrapped closed with duct tape.” The woman believed her daughter would be buried in a traditional casket.
Read moreStudying the appetite for gene editing around the world, Pew reported Thursday that the controversy over so-called designer babies becomes less pronounced when the same tools are used to fight disease or infertility.
Read moreQatar said Monday it had identified the parents of a baby girl dumped at its airport, an incident that prompted officials to order departing female passengers to undergo invasive examinations, sparking global outrage.
Read moreA trial opened Monday in the shooting death of a 2-year-old toddler who was in a van during a high-speed chase in Belgium between police and suspected migrant smugglers seeking to get to Britain.
Read moreQatar said Friday it referred officials at its international airport to prosecutors for possible charges after women aboard Qatar Airways flights faced forced vaginal examinations following the discovery of an abandoned newborn baby.
Read moreAustralia on Monday condemned Qatar authorities’ treatment of female passengers on a flight to Sydney who were subjected to internal examinations after a newborn baby was found abandoned at a Doha airport.
Read moreAir pollution killed 476,000 newborns in 2019, with the biggest hotspots in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, according to a new global study which said that nearly two-thirds of the deaths came from noxious fumes from cooking fuels.
Read moreBottle-fed babies may ingest more than a million pieces of microplastics each day, new research showed Monday highlighting the abundance of plastics in our food products.
Read moreThe Texas Supreme Court denied the Cook Children’s Medical Center’s emergency motion to expedite a ruling in a fight over whether or not to take 1-year-old Tinslee Lewis off of life support. The child has severe lung and heart issues and the hospital insists she’s in constant pain and will never improve.
Read moreAn appeals court in Texas ruled against the parents of a 10-month-old boy who sought to block the Texas Children’s Hospital from removing their son from life support. The child was hospitalized with hypothermia, showed “no signs of neurological life,” and was declared brain dead.
Read moreScientists revealed Monday there is very low risk of mothers passing Covid-19 to their newborns, even during breastfeeding.
Read moreThe World Health Organization, UNICEF and partners said there are about 2 million stillbirths every year, mostly in the developing world, according to the first-ever global estimates published Thursday.
Read moreMost babies born in New Jersey next year will get a $1,000 bond, Governor Phil Murphy announced Wednesday, acting on a plan to narrow the Garden State’s income gap.
Read moreIt’s still too soon to try to make genetically edited babies because the science isn’t advanced enough to ensure safety, says an international panel of experts who also mapped a pathway for any countries that want to consider it.
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