Mothers who drink a few glasses of wine over a short period in early pregnancy may have caused fetal problems to their unborn child, a new study says.

Erhard Bieberich, a biochemist in the Medical College of Georgia Schools of Medicine and Graduate Studies compared cell death in mice following different levels of alcohol consumption

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is urging consumers to stop using certain 3-in-1 and 4-in-1 convertible bassinets after two infants died from strangulation.

The "close-sleeper/bedside sleeper" bassinets are made by Simplicity Inc. of Reading, PA. The agency's safety alert was prompted by the death of a 6-month-old Kansas girl who died from strangulation Aug. 21 after getting caught in the product's metal bars, the Washington Post said Friday

Life expectancy was linked to the social environment where an individual is born, live, grow, work and age, according to a report released Thursday by the World Health Organization.

"The toxic combination of bad policies, economics and politics is in large measure responsible for the fact that a majority of people in the world do not enjoy the good health that is biologically possible," the WHO commissioners wrote in "Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health

Giving an infusion of magnesium sulfate, better known as Epsom salt, to women at imminent risk for preterm delivery cuts the odds of their infants later developing cerebral palsy dropped by almost half, researchers say.

Babies born prematurely account for about a third of all cases of cerebral palsy, a developmental brain disorder that affects movement, motor skills and muscle coordination because of brain damage caused during birth

Bacteria and fungi infection in amniotic fluid may cause a significant number of premature births in infants, new study has found.

Using new technology, Stanford researchers in California reported on Monday that they looked at fluid samples from 166 women in preterm labor; 113 of the women went on to deliver premature babies. The women were patients at Hutzel Women's Hospital in Detroit between October 1998 and December 2002