Zoo Atlanta’s giant panda family just got larger.

Infections may play a bigger role in premature birth than doctors have thought, says a new study that found almost one in seven women in preterm labor harbored bacteria or fungi in their amniotic...

Alone and in labor, Jessica Higgins found the first place she could to give birth _ her front lawn.

Birth-control pills could screw up a woman’s ability to sniff out a compatible mate, a new study finds.

Birth dates found in online documents have raised questions about the age of another Chinese gymnast _ bringing the total to three, or half the women’s team expected to contend for a gold medal, who may be too young to compete in the Beijing...

Watching for the first breath seemed like forever, but after a normal, tail-first delivery, a healthy female dolphin was born at the National Aquarium in Baltimore _ taking its first breath after only five seconds of...

Diabetic women who get pregnant are three to four times more likely to have a child with birth defects than other women, according to new government research.

Is Free-birthing madness or ideal way to give birth? And what is Freebirthing? It is…

Two Michigan sisters surprised hospital staff and themselves by giving birth to daughters on the same day. The Hillsdale Daily News reported that Sarah Sweeter made the trip from Kalamazoo to be with her sister Deborah Lewis in Homer for the birth...

More than 50 dissident Catholic groups from around the world have written an open letter asking Pope Benedict XVI to lift the church’s ban on birth control.Taking a half-page ad in the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, the groups said Friday...