BBC

Home birth mum 'likely died of multi-organ failure'

Jennifer Cahill was slightly anaemic despite taking iron tablets for three weeks before giving birth, her inquest was told A mother who died along with her baby girl after giving birth at home ...
BBC

Home birth mum 'likely died of multi-organ failure'

A mother who died along with her baby girl after giving birth at home suffered multiple organ failure with cardiac arrest after experiencing post-delivery bleeding, an inquest has heard. Pathologist ...
The Sun

Sweet snaps show birth of 13 puppies in largest litter known as The Baker’s Dozen – all set to become guide dogs in 2027

The eight-week-old arrivals have been given bakery-themed names in honour of the charity’s Puppy Appeal PAWS and feel the love for these shots of 13 guide dog pups known as The Baker’s Dozen. Charity ...
Irish Sun

Sweet snaps show birth of 13 puppies in largest litter known as The Baker’s Dozen – all set to become guide dogs in 2027

PAWS and feel the love for these shots of 13 guide dog pups known as The Baker’s Dozen. Charity Guide Dogs is celebrating its largest litter for three years after four-year-old Yori, a golden ...
People

Your Baby’s Sex Is Not Random, Study Says: It's a 'Coin Toss with a Two-Headed Coin'

If you've had two children of the same sex, you're more likely to have a third one of the same sex, according to a new study Getty A new study challenges the long-held belief that a baby’s sex is ...
WXIX-TV

Kettering Health ends Medicare contracts with multiple insurers, including second-largest provider

CINCINNATI (WXIX) - Kettering Health Network announced Monday that they are ending contracts with two major Medicare insurance carriers, including the second-largest provider. Kettering Health says ...
WSMV

TriStar Centennial announces birth of largest baby in last 3 years

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A new record was set at Nashville’s premier birthing center this week. TriStar Centennial Women’s Hospital announced the birth of Baby Cassian, who weighed in at 12 pounds, ...
Investopedia

Credit Scores Are Down—The Biggest One-Year Drop Since the Financial Crisis

The average FICO score dropped to 715 in April 2025, down from 717 in 2024, because of rising credit utilization and increased delinquencies. Student loan delinquencies surged after COVID-19 ...
The Economist

Asian countries should prepare for a higher rate of twin births

A SIGN outside Kodinhi in southern India calls it “God’s own twin’s village”. No one is quite sure why its mothers appear to conceive twins vastly more often than those elsewhere in the country. Yet ...
Medscape

Birth Factors Linked to Severe RSV Outcomes in Children

Researchers in Sweden conducted a nationwide register-based cohort study to identify risk factors associated with severe outcomes of RSV infection among 2,354,302 children (51.4% boys) born between ...
The New York Times

$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials

The birth control pills, IUDs and hormonal implants were purchased by U.S.A.I.D. for women in low-income countries. They had been in limbo in a Belgian warehouse after the U.S. cut much of its foreign ...
THE WEEK

Parthenogenesis: the miracle of 'virgin births' in the animal kingdom

In Telford's Exotic Zoo, life found a way. A casque-headed iguana has given birth to eight babies at the Shropshire wildlife park – without any contact with a male, via a phenomenon called ...