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Health International 

Covid Blamed for Biggest Drop in French Births In 45 Years

February 25, 2021February 25, 2021 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
babies, coronavirus, France, pregnancy

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.

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Appeals Civil Rights Law Personal Injury 

Awarding Grandma Damages, Top NY Court Cites Ever-Evolving Modern Families

February 18, 2021February 19, 2021 NICK RUMMELL
babies, damages, emotional distress, New York

New York’s high court brought grandparents under the immediate-family umbrella for emotional distress damages, urging what it called “common sense.”

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Health International Science 

First Baby Born After Uterus Transplant in France

February 17, 2021February 17, 2021 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
babies, France, health care, surgery

A baby has been born following a uterus transplant for the first time ever in France, the hospital treating mother and infant said Wednesday.

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Health Regional 

Medical Emergency

February 9, 2021February 10, 2021 BRIEF
babies, hospitals, Kern County, Medicine, pregnancy, Wrongful Death

A 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.

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Business Consumers Health Science 

Rampant Metal Contamination in Baby Food, House Investigation Finds

February 4, 2021February 4, 2021 SAMANTHA HAWKINS
babies, chemicals, FDA, food, labeling, nutrition, U.S. House of Representatives

Lawmakers say manufacturers exploited the lack of federal regulation to set dangerously high internal standards for toxic heavy metal levels.

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Appeals Criminal Health 

New Investigation Leads to Texas Woman Released on Bond After 17 Years in Prison

January 27, 2021January 28, 2021 CAMERON LANGFORD
babies, Bail bonds, Medical, murder, Texas

Rosa 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.

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Appeals Civil Rights 

Burial

December 31, 2020January 4, 2021 BRIEF
babies, Death, Deceptive trade, emotional distress, Texas

An 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.

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Health Science 

Study Finds Global Hostility to Gene Editing, Particularly Among Christians

December 10, 2020December 10, 2020 NINA PULLANO
babies, diseases, ethics, fertility, genetics, Pew Research Center, Research

Studying 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.

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Criminal Health International 

Qatar Says Identified Parents of Dumped Baby in Airport Scandal

November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
airports, babies, Qatar, searches

Qatar 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.

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Criminal International Trials 

Trial Opens in Death of Toddler in Migrant-Smuggling Case

November 23, 2020November 23, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
babies, Belgium, immigrants, manslaughter, Police Killing, smuggling

A 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.

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Civil Rights Criminal International 

Qatar: Officials Behind Women Exams Referred to Prosecutors

October 30, 2020October 30, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
airports, babies, pregnancy, Qatar, searches, sexual assault

Qatar 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.

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Civil Rights Health International 

Australia Protests Qatar Airport’s Exams of Women Passengers

October 26, 2020October 26, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
Australia, Aviation, babies, gender, Qatar

Australia 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.

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Environment Health International 

Air Pollution Killed 500K Newborns in 2019: Global Study

October 21, 2020October 21, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Africa, babies, India, pollution, pregnancy

Air 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.

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Environment Health Science 

Bottle-Fed Babies Ingest ‘Millions’ of Microplastics: Study

October 19, 2020October 19, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
babies, food, plastic, Research

Bottle-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.

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Appeals Civil Rights Health 

Life Support

October 16, 2020October 19, 2020 BRIEF
babies, hospitals, Medicine, Texas

The 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.

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Appeals Health 

Life Support

October 12, 2020October 13, 2020 BRIEF
babies, brain, hospitals, Texas

An 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.

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Health Science 

Very Low Risk of Mother-to-Newborn Covid Transmission: Study

October 12, 2020October 13, 2020 VICTORIA PRIESKOP
babies, coronavirus, pregnancy, Research

Scientists revealed Monday there is very low risk of mothers passing Covid-19 to their newborns, even during breastfeeding.

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Health International 

2 Million Stillbirths Every Year, Pandemic Might Worsen Toll

October 8, 2020October 8, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
babies, health care, Medicine, pregnancy, Research, United Nations

The 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.

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Financial Regional 

New Jersey Tots to Get a Grand Under ‘Baby Bond’ Bid

September 9, 2020September 9, 2020 EMILEE LARKIN
babies, bonds, New Jersey, poverty

Most 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.

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Health Science 

Still Too Soon to Try Altering Human Embryo DNA, Panel Says

September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS
babies, China, DNA, ethics, genetics, Medicine

It’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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