WHEN Paul Tomkins’ daughter was born, it should have been the happiest day of his life. Instead, it was the saddest – for he was an alcoholic who could no longer ‘drink in peace’. The ...

Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Illinois, is sponsoring a bill to bar hospitals from turning away or sending home a woman in active labor without a “Safe Discharge Labor Plan,” according to NBC News, which was ...

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is asking the public to help name their baby elephant, with four names to choose from, and voting will take place until December 1st.

My husband, George, and I held her and stared at her and admired her newness. A few hours later, my doctor noticed that my ...

WHEN 17-year-old Gabrielle O’Gorman set foot inside the Magdalene Laundry in Dublin and the big green door shut firmly behind ...

The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.

Now settled at home, Martin told PEOPLE that her son is "the brightest rainbow" that the family has been waiting for, as the ...

A mother says she gave birth to her baby in a car minutes after being turned away from a hospital over the weekend in Crown Point, Indiana. Video shows her being wheeled out by hospital staff, and she ...

Some babies are born with early blindness due to dense bilateral congenital cataracts, requiring surgery to restore their sight. This period of several months without vision can leave a lasting mark ...

A brief period of blindness right after birth can have lasting effects on how the brain processes visual detail—but surprisingly, not on how it recognizes faces, objects, or words. The team studied ...

April Martinez, 25, knew something was up when her uniform pants no longer fit and were causing her severe pain. She had started as a corrections officer in Bartlett in December and by the end of ...

Picture the scene. 1930s Suffolk. A small hamlet etched with rolling fields of wheat and a quintessentially English churchyard. No, I’m not pitching a new Sunday night period drama to the BBC. Instead ...