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A Mexican woman is pregnant with nine babies—six girls and three boys—as a result of in vitro fertilisation. The woman was identified as Karla Vanessa Perez of the northeastern

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The number of women dying in childbirth in Britain has risen dramatically as maternity units struggle to cope with rising numbers of older mothers and more complex cases, research has found. A stud

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Mistakes by maternity staff that have left babies brain-damaged are expected to cost Britain’s National Health Service (NHS) £235 million (€285m). The money has been set aside to s

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A woman in Argentina who insisted on seeing what she expected would be the lifeless body of her premature baby found the infant alive in the drawer of a hospital mortuary. Authorities say the baby

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Women having children at older ages and the growing use of artificial reproductive technologies has led to a marked increase in the birth of twins. In 2009, one in every 30 babies born in the Unite

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Little Olivia Norton has been hailed a miracle by doctors—after being born with no blood. Oliva, now six months old, was born completely white because she had such a low count of haemoglobin&

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A cheap medical device can dramatically reduce the number of premature births in some at-risk women, according to a team of doctors in Spain. Their study, published in The Lancet, showed t

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Children of women who were given micronutrient supplements (minerals needed in small quantities, such as iron, iodine and vitamin A) before they became pregnant had gene modifications at birth as w

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Women diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy will no longer face the dilemma of whether to defer treatment to avoid harming their babies. A series of studies published in The Lancet and

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Expectant mothers who are both overweight and smoke during their pregnancy risk damaging their baby’s developing heart, new research suggests. Congenital heart abnormalities are some of the m

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