The government doesn’t provide estimates of the extent of so-called birth tourism — pregnant women coming to the U.S. on ...

Oregon’s natural population growth -- births, minus deaths -- ranks 40th in the U.S. It's been negative since 2020.

The U.S. fertility rate fell to a historic low in 2025. Discover the economic pressures and demographic shifts driving this ...

A research team working the summer of 2023 off the coast of Dominica when they made the "impossibly rare" observation of a ...

It's usually more dangerous for women to give birth lying down, so why do they? It's all because of a Frenchman who decided it was more convenient – for men. For thousands of years, across the world, ...

The ancient city of Iconium is now known as Konya. It is located in central Turkey. The city lies at an elevation of about 1,027 meters (3,370 feet) on the southwest edge of the central Anatolian ...

The researchers knew something was off. It was July 2023, and they were on a boat in the Caribbean Sea, tracking a sperm whale, when they came across a larger group: 11 whales, bunched together near ...

Childbirth is often framed as a choice between two extremes: “natural” birth or medical intervention. The real challenge is making sure women can decide how they give birth, without pressure in either ...

On July 8, 2023, whale biologist Shane Gero was on a boat off the coast of Dominica when he realized something “strange” was going on. A group of sperm whales known as “Unit A” that he and his ...

One day at an Idaho hospital, half the newborns Dr. Tom Patterson saw didn't get the vitamin K shots that have been given to babies for decades to prevent potentially deadly bleeding. On another ...