Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The time has apparently come to panic about global declining birth rates, again. “America is uniquely ill-suited to handle a ...

The past few years have seen more attention being paid to maternal mental health. Many people are now aware of conditions such as postnatal depression, which affects one in seven mothers. Up to 45% of ...

Human birth has a reputation for danger. The usual explanation is simple enough: walking upright narrowed the pelvis, while evolution also favored babies with large ...

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Moreover, birth rates are notoriously hard to change, and efforts to do so often ...

New research from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences has found that babies with larger birth weights tend to have fewer mental health and behavioral issues in childhood and adolescence.

Women pay more than men for haircuts and dry cleaning. They wait longer to use public restrooms. And in the latest indignity—at least for the short term in Oregon—women at America's colleges and ...

UiB research shows that being born to term with a weight lower than 3.5 kilos is related to a higher risk of developing neurodevelopmental problems such as cerebral palsy and autism. In medical ...

Human childbirth is commonly viewed as uniquely difficult and dangerous. The reason: The combination of bipedalism and large brains creates a tight fit between the baby and the birth canal. Research ...