Presented without due care, research intended to help has the potential to cause harm—particularly in the vulnerable perinatal period, says Emma Rourke As rates of caesarean birth have increased over ...

Exeter Hospital joins more than 130 hospitals in the U.S. and Sweden in successfully implementing the TeamBirth program.

Women who experienced severe maternal morbidity with their first birth were less likely to have more children, a ...

According to a new study from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto, being born preterm is associated with an increased risk ...

Being born preterm is associated with an increased risk of death from birth until the third and fourth decades of life.

Members of the House of Representatives' Quad Committee filed a bill on Wednesday, November 20, aiming to fast-track the ...

This important study uses Mendelian Randomisation to show that early life phenotypes (i.e. onset of age at menarche and age at first birth) have an influence on a multitude of health outcomes later in ...

For the first time, the British Thoracic Society (BTS), National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) have collaborated to develop ...

However, evidence of their ecological impacts has been lacking. "Our study has shown that bio-based fibers have a range of adverse effects on earthworms—animals which are critical to the ...

‘Fertility friendly’ policies To boost the country’s declining birth rate, China’s State Council, the country’s chief administrative authority, rolled out a policy with 13 directives ...

They want to know what is in the "box black" and how such evidence was derived and what was it based upon. Concomitantly, courts need to be comfortable that the results that come from artificial ...

A black-footed ferret cloned from DNA of a ferret that lived in the 1980s has birthed two healthy kits, the first successful live births from a cloned endangered species and another win for a federal ...