11+ hour, 47+ min ago  (517+ words) Dr. Universe: Why are human babies so helpless compared to other mammals? " Ruby, 10, Florida When my cat had kittens, she fed them and kept them safe for a long time " for 12 whole weeks. That's nothing compared to humans. Where I…...

11+ hour, 33+ min ago  (536+ words) Stacy Gooden-Crandle would have never guessed when her son was born that he'd grow up to be a Super Bowl champion. At that time, she said, she wasn't even sure if he'd make it home from the hospital. Seattle Seahawks…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (255+ words) From 1976: A tiny baby boy was getting extra attention at Deaconess Hospital. Several days earlier, a Pasco physician's wife had found the infant in a garbage can behind her home. She was alerted by the infant's "kitten-like cries" and discovered…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (549+ words) Tylenol use among pregnant women fell after President Donald Trump linked autism to the over-the-counter pain relief medicine, according to an analysis of U. S. emergency room prescribing patterns published in the U. K. medical journal Lancet. In September, Trump said pregnant women should…...

4+ mon, 1+ day ago  (446+ words) State abortion restrictions put in place during the last two decades have resulted in more women dying during or after childbirth, leading to about 16 additional deaths a year across the states that became more stringent, new research finds. The study…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago  (698+ words) Spokane pediatrician Dr. Sarah d'Hulst has "basically never" treated a baby with hepatitis B. She fears that may change soon. On Friday, a federal panel tasked with providing vaccine guidance removed a decades-old recommendation to administer the hepatitis B vaccine to…...

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (330+ words) Dear Doctors: My daughter suffered from hyperemesis while she was pregnant two years ago, and it was truly a miserable pregnancy. Is there a way to prevent this for future pregnancies? I understand this condition is linked to the hormone…...

11+ mon, 1+ week ago  (817+ words) After 18 years of infertility, a couple could finally have a baby thanks to artificial intelligence. The father had a rare condition that left him with almost no detectable sperm. Then fertility specialists found a novel path to the mother's pregnancy....

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (275+ words) From 1975: Frank Monta, a migrant farm worker who used "a handbook and two shoestrings to deliver his wife's twins," was being kicked out of his Sunnyside motel room. The reason: He was heating baby bottles on a camp stove. The…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (773+ words) Holly Goodman didn't take Tylenol during her pregnancy with her son, Isaac. "I never took acetaminophen because I had fertility issues and I was so worried I was going to miscarry again, right? So I never took a thing. I…...