
Tiny preemies get a boost from live music therapy
As the guitarist strums and softly sings a lullaby in Spanish, tiny Augustin Morales stops squirming in his hospital crib and closes his eyes.
Turkish womb transplant patient loses baby
A hospital says a Turkish woman who was the first to get pregnant with a transplanted donor womb has had her pregnancy terminated. Derya Sert was born ...

Study questions if bed rest prevents prematurity
New research is raising fresh concern that an age-old treatment for troubled pregnancies — bed rest — doesn't seem to prevent premature birth, and ...

Syrian women giving birth in exile of refugee camp
In a tent hospital bed, a Syrian woman who was four months pregnant when she fled her country's civil war cradles one of the newest residents of this ...
FDA warns pregnant women of migraine drug risk
U.S. health regulators are warning doctors and women of child-bearing age that half-a-dozen medications used to treat migraine headaches can decrease ...

Justice Department appeals morning-after case
The Obama administration on Wednesday appealed a federal judge's order to lift all age limits on who can buy morning-after birth control pills without ...

2nd stillborn's remains may have gone to laundry
A Minnesota hospital said Friday that missing remains from a stillborn baby presumed to have been wrapped in linens at the hospital morgue likely was ...

Boy triplets a sensation at top Cuba ballet school
Visitors to the elite feeder school for Cuba's renowned National Ballet might be forgiven for thinking they're suddenly seeing triple.
US says preemie study didn't fully disclose risks
Federal health officials say the parents of premature babies enrolled in a study of oxygen treatment several years ago weren't properly informed of ...
FDA approves return of drug for morning sickness
Talk about a comeback: A treatment pulled off the market 30 years ago has won Food and Drug Administration approval again as the only drug ...

Judge making morning-after pill available to all
The morning-after pill might become as easy to buy as aspirin. In a scathing rebuke accusing the Obama administration of letting election-year ...

Lohan plays April Fools' joke with pregnancy tweet
Lindsay Lohan isn't going to be a mother, yet. The actress confirmed Tuesday morning that a cryptic late-night Twitter posting hours earlier that ...

Judge overturns verdict to 'Price is Right' model
A judge has overturned an $8.5 million verdict awarded to a former "Price is Right" model in a pregnancy discrimination case and ruled a new trial is ...

5-organ transplant patient gives birth
A woman who was given a new liver, pancreas, stomach and small and large intestine at a Miami hospital in 2007 has delivered a healthy baby girl, ...

Hard to find good info on drug safety in pregnancy
Nearly every woman takes a medication at some point during pregnancy. Yet there's disturbingly little easy-to-understand information about which drugs ...

China may end long-hated labor re-education camps
All it took was a handwritten note from police to send Zhao Meifu to a labor camp for a year in China's arid northwest. The farmer had been seeking ...

Do more women need diabetes care when pregnant?
A change in testing could nearly triple the number of women diagnosed with diabetes during pregnancy, but would catching milder cases help mother or ...
Study finds pregnancy nausea drug won't harm fetus
There's reassuring news for pregnant women miserable with morning sickness: A very large study in Denmark finds no evidence that using a popular ...

'What to Expect' daughter Emma Bing gives birth
Emma Bing, the inspiration for the pregnancy bible "What to Expect When You're Expecting," has given birth in Los Angeles to a boy. Lennox Page Ali, ...
Australian radio show behind royal hoax canceled
The Australian radio show behind a hoax phone call to the London hospital where the pregnant Duchess of Cambridge was being treated has been ...

Large study confirms flu vaccine safe in pregnancy
A large study offers reassuring news for pregnant women: It's safe to get a flu shot. The research found no evidence that the vaccine increases the ...

Palace: Prince William and Kate's baby due in July
The former Kate Middleton is due to give birth to her first baby in July, and her health is improving after a bout of severe morning sickness, palace ...