Teens whose mothers had attempted suicide are themselves at increased risk of doing the same thing, according to a German research report.

Dr. Roselind Lieb, from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, along with her associates followed a representative community sample of 933 teenagers, who were between 14 and 17 years old in 1995 along with their mothers. Suicidal thoughts without attempts was reported by 31.9 percent of mothers and 31.6 percent of offspring, and corresponding rates of actual suicide attempts were 2.3 percent and 5.0 percent

Teens whose mothers had attempted suicide are themselves at increased risk of doing the same thing, according to a German research report.

Dr. Roselind Lieb, from the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry in Munich, along with her associates followed a representative community sample of 933 teenagers, who were between 14 and 17 years old in 1995 along with their mothers. Suicidal thoughts without attempts was reported by 31.9 percent of mothers and 31.6 percent of offspring, and corresponding rates of actual suicide attempts were 2.3 percent and 5.0 percent

Scientists who want to create a human embryo with genetic material from two mothers are given the go ahead by Britain.

Scientists from Britain's Newcastle University plan to transfer the pro-nuclei - the components of a nucleus of a human embryo - by a man and woman into an unfertilized egg from another woman to prevent mothers passing certain genetic diseases to their unborn babies, reports The Associated Press

A woman is home after giving birth to triplets and then undergoing emergency heart surgery.

Doctors performed an emergency caesarean operation after the woman came to the hospital August 19 with head and neck pain

A woman is home today after giving birth to triplets and then undergoing emergency heart surgery