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 ...

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 ...

Birth trouble is scattered across the mammal world The old assumption has been that natural selection should weed out severe birth problems in wild animals. If mothers or offspring die because of ...

In a wrongful birth suit, the claim arises from some disability the child has, and the parents blame their physician(s) for not alerting them to some test or test results that could have revealed the ...

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.

For centuries, childbirth’s pain was explained as punishment; more recently, as the evolutionary price of walking upright and ...

TULSA, Okla. — More birth certificate headaches are being reported from several families in Green Country. For one family, they say the headache consisted of unanswered phone calls, transfers, and ...