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.
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Awarding Grandma Damages, Top NY Court Cites Ever-Evolving Modern Families
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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First Baby Born After Uterus Transplant in France
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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Medical Emergency
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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Rampant Metal Contamination in Baby Food, House Investigation Finds
Lawmakers say manufacturers exploited the lack of federal regulation to set dangerously high internal standards for toxic heavy metal levels.
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New Investigation Leads to Texas Woman Released on Bond After 17 Years in Prison
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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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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Study Finds Global Hostility to Gene Editing, Particularly Among Christians
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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Qatar Says Identified Parents of Dumped Baby in Airport Scandal
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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Trial Opens in Death of Toddler in Migrant-Smuggling Case
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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Qatar: Officials Behind Women Exams Referred to Prosecutors
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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Australia Protests Qatar Airport’s Exams of Women Passengers
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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Air Pollution Killed 500K Newborns in 2019: Global Study
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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Bottle-Fed Babies Ingest ‘Millions’ of Microplastics: Study
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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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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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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Very Low Risk of Mother-to-Newborn Covid Transmission: Study
Scientists revealed Monday there is very low risk of mothers passing Covid-19 to their newborns, even during breastfeeding.
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2 Million Stillbirths Every Year, Pandemic Might Worsen Toll
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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New Jersey Tots to Get a Grand Under ‘Baby Bond’ Bid
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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Still Too Soon to Try Altering Human Embryo DNA, Panel Says
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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