A newborn infant infected with an unknown form of bacteria is in intensive care in an Alberta hospital.

The Chinook Health Region is still awaiting test results to establish the cause and type of the infections. A baby boy died, reportedly, of the same infection Friday morning after surgery

- The controversial plastic used in baby bottles, water bottles, and to line food cans, Bisphenol-A, has been deemed safe by the Food and Drug Administration.

Concern over the effects of the plastic, especially on the very young and old, have caused a bit of a backlash against products that use BPA since U.S. government scientists at the National Toxicology Program (NTP) voiced "some" concern about they synthetic material's possible effects, which they said could include accelerated female puberty, as well as having negative effects on the mammary and prostate glands

The future of an infant born of an Indian surrogate mother is uncertain as her biological parents, a Japanese couple, divorced after conception.

Abandoned by her Japanese and the Indian mother, the baby is now under her grandmother's care in a hospital in Jaipur, in western Rajasthan state

An Indian court on Monday refused a mother's plea to abort a 26-week fetus with a serious heart defect, saying the law does not permit such late-term abortions.

The 31-year-old mother, Niketa Mehta, and her husband Haresh found out after 24 weeks that the fetus had a complete congenital heart blockage and malpositioned arteries that could, doctors told them, require a pacemaker implantation soon after birth

Women diagnosed with diabetes before their pregnancy are at a greater risk of giving birth to a baby with a birth defect or multiple defects than their non-diabetic counterparts, according to a new study.

The study carried out by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found diabetic women are three to four times more likely to have a child with single birth defects, while the risk for multiple defects is eightfold