New research from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has found that babies with larger birth weights tend to have fewer mental health and behavioral issues in childhood and adolescence.

Teenage fathers are at increased risk of having babies born with birth problems ranging from pre-term delivery or low birth weight, through to death in or near to the time of delivery, according to ...

Mississippi Republican Rep. Steven Palazzo is proposing a bill to prohibit the disturbing phenomena of “wrongful birth” and “wrongful life” suits. In a wrongful birth suit, the parents claim that they ...

PULLMAN, Wash. – A snippet of hair can reveal a pregnant person’s stress level and may one day help warn of unexpected birth problems, a study indicates. Washington State University researchers ...

The Premature Birth Problem Preterm Birth: Causes, Consequences, and Prevention, a report released Thursday by the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, shows that 12.5 percent of ...

At the age of 22, Eva Keller started using the patch. Knowing she did not want an invasive contraceptive like an IUD or to have to remember to take a pill every day, Keller opted for a transdermal ...

The time has apparently come to panic about global declining birth rates, again. “America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a falling population,” worried the Economist, in one of many representative ...