WASHINGTON AFP — The White House warned the media on Tuesday not to "exploit" the pregnancy of Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin's teenage daughter Bristol, calling it a "private family matter." "The president of the United States (George W. Bush) believes that this is a matter that this...
ST PAUL, Minnesota AFP — Conservatives rallied round Sarah Palin Monday over her unmarried daughter's pregnancy, but the revelation exposed John McCain's risky Republican running-mate pick to fresh scrutiny. Vice presidential nominee Palin electrified social and religious conservatives, who often take a hard line on pre-marital sex, when she...
PARIS AFP — Pregant women subjected to traumatising stress are more likely to give birth to children who develop schizophrenia, according to a study published Thursday. "The kind of stress in question are those that would be experienced in a natural disaster such as an earthquake or hurricane, a...
PARIS AFP — Women's pregnancy rates drop and miscarriages increase when the baby's father is over 40 years old, according to a study to be released Monday. It has long been known that a woman's chance of reproducing declines with age once she is in her mid-thirties, but the...
LOS ANGELES AFP — A US man who was born a woman before undergoing gender realignment surgery has given birth to a baby girl, US media reported Thursday. Thomas Beatie, who is legally male but decided to keep his female sex organs during chest reconstruction surgery and testosterone therapy,...
The teen years pose challenges, but they also can yield rewards. The Secret Life of the American Teenager explores the former, a 15-year-old's pregnancy. ABC Family hopes the new drama (Tuesday, 8 ET/PT) brings the latter: more attention and viewers, especially teens and young adults. ...
BUCHAREST AFP — An 11-year-old Romanian girl who became pregnant after allegedly being raped by her uncle has travelled to Britain for an abortion despite being given last-minute permission to undergo the procedure in her native country, officials said Monday. "The girl and her mother left for Britain on...
BASEL, Switzerland AFP — Dutch defender Khalid Boulahrouz declared himself available for selection for Saturday's Euro 2008 quarter-final on Friday as he battled to shrug off the tragic loss in midweek of Anissa, his prematurely born baby daughter. The Dutch camp has rallied round to offer moral support to...
WASHINGTON AFP — A group of US schoolgirls in the Massachusetts fishing town of Gloucester made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together, a report has said. Time magazine reported Thursday that 17 girls at Gloucester High School are expecting babies "more than four times the...
*On the successful network-to-cable transplant Law & Order: Criminal Intent (USA, Sunday, 9 ET/PT), Mike Logan Chris Noth is reunited with partner Megan Wheeler Julianne Nicholson, who is back from Joint Task Force duty (Nicholson's pregnancy leave) to investigate the murder of a reviled gossip columnist. It's followed by new...
SYDNEY AFP — An Australian doctor on Friday hailed as a "miracle" a baby girl who survived a full-term pregnancy outside the womb. Durga Thangarajah was delivered by caesarean section at Darwin Private Hospital on Thursday, after spending almost nine months growing inside her mother's right ovary -- stretching...
TV *Angela Kinsey's section on NBC's The Office website has videos featuring Steve Carell and John Krasinski discussing Kinsey's real-life pregnancy (nbc.com/The_Office/angela). *BBCAmerica.com has posted a commentary track for the third-season finale of Doctor Who. The track isn't available on the U.S....
STANFORD, Calif. -- Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have uncovered the first clues about the ancient origins of a mother's intricate lifeline to her unborn baby, the placenta, which delivers oxygen and nutrients critical to the baby's health. The evidence suggests the placenta of humans and...
LOS ANGELES AFP — The pregnant 16-year-old sister of troubled pop star Britney Spears is engaged, it was reported Tuesday. People magazine reported that Jamie Lynn Spears -- the star of the US television show "Zoey 101" whose pregnancy last year sparked a nationwide debate -- has been showing...
While I liked Rand Richards Cooper's review of Juno ("Life & Death," January 31)--a truly remarkable film--I disagree with his conclusions about how the movie may represent cultural changes regarding abortion. Again, someone's judgment has been driven by ideology rather than the facts on the ground. The heroine in...
NEW YORK AFP — Hollywood diva Jennifer Lopez gave birth to a boy and a girl early Friday, according to People magazine, which reportedly paid up to six million dollars for exclusive photo rights of the newborn twins. The twins are the first children for Lopez, 38, and the...
PARIS AFP — Acupuncture can increase the chance of success for couples seeking to have a baby through in-vitro fertilisation IVF, according to a review published online Friday by the British Medical Journal BMJ. The paper looked at seven studies in which 1,366 women undergoing IVF were given acupuncture...
Another round of fighting over laws regulating midwives has tapped the patience of committees and legislative leaders. Thursday, before passing out SB93, which would clarify rules for midwives delivering babies in the home, the Senate Health and Human Services Committee strongly admonished those fighting over proposed changes to...
PARIS AFP — A ruling by France's supreme court on the right of parents to name a miscarried or stillborn foetus could stoke debate about the country's abortion laws and embryo research, lawyers and activists said Thursday. The Court of Cassation, France's highest judicial court, handed down the decision...
M2 PRESSWIRE-1 February 2008-Yale University: Risk of Congenital Heart Defects Higher Among IVF TwinsC1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:31012008 New Haven, Conn. -- The prevalence of congenital heart disease CHD among in vitro fertilization IVF pregnancies is similar to that ...
