A significantly expanded maternal and child health program has led to a sharp reduction in child malnutrition rates in the ...

Recent reports by the Global Hunger Index show a continuing improvement in our country’s hunger rates. From the year 2000, we ...

Parents don’t agree when or how their child should stop using a pacifier and sucking their thumb, according to a new poll.

The podcast Chasing Life With Dr. Sanjay Gupta explores the medical science behind some of life’s mysteries big and small.

When oxytocin is inhaled via a nasal spray, it increases breast milk oxytocin levels, but it has less of an effect in new ...

We live in a medicated era. Recent data indicate that more than half of Americans are currently taking prescription drugs. Among pregnant women this number skyrockets to more than 80 percent. One of ...

Evidence is mounting that clinicians can treat serious genetic disorders prenatally by injecting medicine into the amniotic fluid, thus preventing damage that begins in utero.

Colombia Seeks to Join China-Based Development Bank as Latin America Drifts Away From Washington MIAMI (AP) — Colombia's government has applied to join a China-based development bank ...

Injecting medicines into amniotic fluid may be a viable strategy for treating SMA before birth, according to a new study in ...

Analysis of both historical perspectives and current societal influences with consideration of how each have impacted the development of nurse-midwifery ... and evidence to provide holistic prenatal, ...

For famous people, having a child is also kind of like passing down a huge legacy (and fortune), and they tend to treat their pregnancy announcements with the same amount of artistic creativity, style ...