A top European political body is to investigate claims of stolen babies at birth in a Ukrainian city. The case has already been reported among three mothers.

"People are afraid to even give birth now," says Kharkiv campaigner Tatyana Zakharova

A treatment used for acute heavy-metal poisoning is used on an autistic boy, causing him to go into cardiac arrest on Tuesday.

Abubakar Tariq Nadama, 5, died in a doctor's office after receiving the treatment that some people believe may cure the neurological and developmental disorder, officials say

A new study finds that children ages three to five who eat one additional serving of French fries per week increase their risk of breast cancer as adults by 27 percent.

"Researchers are finding more evidence that diet early in life could play a role in the development of diseases in women later in life," says Dr. Karin Michels, of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and Harvard Medical School, who led the study

Avian flu claims the life of a 35-year-old man in southern Vietnam as health officials begin a mass vaccination of poultry to stem the virus' spread.

The Associated Press reports Ben Tre, from the southern Mekong Delta province, died on July 31. He tested positive for the H5N1 flu virus on Saturday, says Phan Van Tu, chief virologist at the Pasteur Institute in Ho Chi Minh City

A brain-dead woman who was kept on life support for nearly three months dies after delivering a healthy baby girl.

According to an e-mail from the father, there were no complications during delivery and the baby "is doing well