The population of the world’s second most populous country dropped by 3.39 million in 2025 to 1.405 billion, a faster decline ...

A Washington woman gave birth on a fireboat after she went into labor on Anderson Island, a small island in Puget Sound. The ...

Doctors had warned that babies with anencephaly often die in utero or survive only minutes or hours after birth. Haven was ...

WASHINGTON (WKRN) — For more than a century, Americans have treated citizenship at birth as a geographical certainty. A newborn’s first breath on American soil has been understood as a definitive ...

Previous research has found that the human brain reaches maturity sometime in the 20s, but a new study suggests that it never stops developing. Neuroscientists at the University of Cambridge have ...

The next generation of technology must be built in dialogue with artists, storytellers and cultural thinkers to create tools that feel human, not just functional. Technological advancements like AI ...

A small but growing number of pregnant women are choosing to give birth without any assistance from a midwife or doctor, trusting instead in influencers’ tales of the “euphoria” of a “free birth”. A ...

NATIONAL — A yearlong joint investigation by NBC News and Bloomberg Law has uncovered a pattern of pregnant women in jails across the United States miscarrying, giving birth alone on filthy cell ...

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.

When Chasity Congious went into labor for the first time, there were no doctors or nurses. No clean blankets to swaddle the coming baby. There were no family members, no friends. Congious wasn’t even ...