Obstetrics experts are urging women who want to become mothers again at an advanced age to think twice, after news of a 61-year-old woman giving birth went viral online this week.
Nearly one in five Indigenous children born in Western Australia (WA) have no birth certificate, as their births weren't ever officially registered, according to new research.
The female panda Xinxin in China's Macao Special Administrative Region has given birth to twin cubs in the afternoon of last Sunday, which marks the first-ever pandas born here.
Dr. Denise J. Jamieson, one of the leaders of the pregnancy and birth defects team, which is part of the C.D.C.’s Zika response effort, said the release of the numbers was the first in what will be weekly updates on birth outcomes in Zika pregnancies. As the number of births rises, she said, the agency will be able to release more detailed information.
Chinese giant panda Hao Hao gave birth to a baby panda in the early hours of Thursday, Belgian animal park Pairi Daiza and the China Conservation and Research Center for the Giant Panda announced.
A Western Australian couple whose three children perished in the downing of Malaysian Airline flight MH17 have announced the birth of a new baby girl, almost two years on from the tragedy.
Short mothers are twice as likely to give birth to a premature baby as tall mothers, according to a joint New Zealand-Swedish study out Friday.
Executive tweets that identical twin girls were born Thursday morning
The national health authority has pledged to include diagnosis and treatment of birth defects under health insurance programs.
The Smithsonian National Zoological Park said here on Wednesday the smaller of the two panda cubs born during the last weekend has died.
The Smithsonian National Zoological Park said here Saturday its female panda has given birth to a cub.
The Queen has approved a decision to create a five-pound coin to mark the birth of the second baby of Prince William and Kate, local media reported Tuesday.
Australia's birth rate has risen for the first time in five years, according to research from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).
Twenty-nine of 31 provincial regions in the Chinese mainland have relaxed the decades-old one-child policy, allowing couples to have a second baby if either parent is an only child, said a senior family planning official on Thursday.
The human placenta is not as sterile as once thought, but rather harbors a small but diverse group of microbes that may influence the course of pregnancy, U.S. researchers said Wednesday
Nearly 230 million children under the age of five have not had their births officially recorded, excluding them from education, health care and social security, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reported on Wednesday.
Two Siberian baby tigers at a zoo in central China's Henan Province have shown that even future top predators can have an unusual start in life by living off milk from a sheep.
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