Every year on March 21, the world observes World Down Syndrome Day, a date that reflects the very nature of the condition it represents. The symbolism.

There are solutions to prevent motherhood from being a death sentence for tens of thousands of women around the world,” write Jacinda Ardern and David Miliband.

When wildlife expert Kate MacRae set up more than 20 hidden cameras in a garden, she did not expect to be potentially the first to record on video a badger giving birth in the wild. At Yew View, on ...

A critically endangered monkey has given birth just months after pioneering surgery saved her from undergoing an amputation. Masaya, a 15-year-old roloway monkey at Chester Zoo, had a golf-ball-sized ...

Most of the way up the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, which rises to a height of more than eighteen thousand feet, in ...

Doctors across the nation are alarmed that skepticism fueled by rising anti-science sentiment and medical mistrust is increasingly reaching beyond vaccines to other safe and routine care for babies ...

A Tulsa couple welcomed their son through a rare “mermaid birth,” also known as an en caul birth. Here’s what it means and ...

United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deported 363 pregnant, postpartum, or nursing women between January 1, 2025, and February 16, 2026, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ...

The zoo’s 20-year-old eastern black rhino Kapuki gave birth to a female calf Thursday. Only about 1,000 eastern black rhinos remain in the wild. About 98% of the population was wiped out between 1960 ...

A pair of California condors reintroduced to the Pacific Northwest by the Yurok Tribe appears to have established the species’ first nest in the region in more than 100 years, program officials ...

Spotted hyena clans flip the script on mammalian power: here, dominance is inherited, alliances matter most and females rule every level of society.

A virtual court hearing from a pregnant mother’s hospital bed shows what forced medical treatment can look like.