Amid renewed calls to consider reducing the legal drinking age, a new University of Georgia study finds that lower drinking ages increase unplanned pregnancies and pre-term births among young people.

Two studies released in honor of World Autism Day on April 2 offered new information about autism and risk factors on the physical and financial levels.

A pain-free and drug-free labour may be many expectant mothers’ dream but researchers reveal that reality hits hard.

A Vietnamese couple are fighting for custody of their 3 month old baby who was taken into custody care straight after birth.

Pregnant women who suffer from the high risk condition pre-eclampsia — which leads to the death of hundreds of babies every year — are putting the lives of their unborn children at significantly increased risk if they continue to smoke during pregnancy.

A German woman was convicted in 2006 of killing 8 of her newborn babies. She buried them in flower pots and a fish tank in the garden of her parents, home near the German-Polish border.

A drug that helps prevent babies from catching the AIDS virus at birth can also protect them while nursing, researchers reported on Monday.

Beijing will impose fines on celebrities who violate the one-child rule that will be much higher than for common citizens, a senior family planning official said on Sunday.

Around 11 million abortions are carried out in India every year and nearly 80,000 women die during the process, according to a research.

Very sad news comes from Tucson as mom dies having triplets. Andrue Smith, the husband and now the father of three children, does not know whether to celebrate the birth of his new three infant children or to mourn the loss of his wife.

A 29 year-old Russian music teacher has given birth to five girls 14 weeks premature at a maternity clinic in Oxford, southern England, British media said on Thursday.