Brooke Hale feared for her son’s life after Luca was born with “red raw” skin and weighing just two-and-a-half pounds ...

Babies are born with fine, downy, short, and slightly pigmented body hair called lanugo. The term comes from the Latin word ...

A mother whose baby contracted her oral herpes in the womb has described her terror after he was born 12 weeks early, looking ...

Our immune systems begin developing long before we are born. Immune cells are generated around 4-weeks after gestation and ...

A woman with two wombs only learned she had multiple uteruses while pregnant with her second child — after doctors missed it ...

A gene therapy approach to boosting the placenta is safe in monkeys, according to a new, short-term study, bringing the ...

One of the reasons society generally struggles with having certain difficult conversations is that we want to minimise the ...

Abortion advocates believe that protections could take a while to kick in, as several lawsuits are expected to challenge the ...

Deputy Commissioner Rose Wall has found a sonographer and radiologist breached the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights (the Code) for misdiagnoses of multiple ultrasound scans for ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — One “I love you” is all Lukas Hazen’s parents were guaranteed as he was flown by medical helicopter to University of Iowa Health Care Stead Family Children’s Hospital. Because they ...

Tarik Skubal's success is a testament to the Detroit Tigers organization, which drafted him in the ninth round and helped him ...

In September, two unborn lives were lost in Kentucky as women received medical treatment for life-threatening conditions.