births

A new law makes Florida the first state to permit cesarean sections in "advanced birth centers." Some health experts are leery even though many hospitals have closed maternity wards.

Women with low-risk pregnancies would not have to deliver at hospitals to get epidurals or to have cesarean sections, under legislation overwhelmingly...

Scientists predicted that more than 1,000 babies would be born with the birth defect in Brazil last year. That never happened. Why?