Fertility & Pregnancy News

China moves to ban late abortions December 16, 2004 The Guardian-- One of the world's least controlled abortion regimes will be tightened next month, when the Chinese city of Guiyang introduces a pilot programme aimed at halting the widespread termination of female foetuses. The new policy bans doctors from carrying out abortions on most women who … [Read more...]

Delivering Babies Better Reported July 17, 2006 PORTLAND, Ore. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- About 50 babies die each day in the United States during childbirth. Most of them are too small or underdeveloped to live, but some die because of medical mistakes. Now there's a new … [Read more...]

The Effects of Stress during Pregnancy Reported February 05, 2008 There may be a connection between extreme stress in pregnancy and schizophrenia in the offspring some time in the future, scientists say. This has been disclosed in the Archives of General Psychiatry by a team of researchers from the University of Manchester under the guidance of … [Read more...]