Tag Archives: Birth

Erika Becerra, 33, was intubated almost immediately after she gave birth to her first son, Diego. Her brother said she never got to hold the boy. Erika Becerra was eight months pregnant when she learned she had tested positive for the coronavirus. Almost immediately after she got the result, her …

Major birth defects are associated with an increased risk for cancer in childhood. New research suggests the risk persists into adulthood. People born with birth defects have a higher risk for cancer throughout life, researchers report. It has been generally known that major birth defects are associated with an increased …

Girls born extremely prematurely may have an increased risk of depression from childhood through young adulthood. Using Finnish birth and health registries, researchers studied 37,682 people diagnosed with mild, moderate or severe depression, comparing them with 148,795 healthy controls. The children were born between 1987 and 2007, and their average …

In July 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 in favor of the Trump administration’s exemptions to the birth control insurance mandate in the Affordable Care Act. Specifically, the ruling means employer health insurance plans are no longer required to cover contraception or birth control if the employer has moral …

When it comes to sensitive healthcare services, the typical consumer experience is inconvenient, expensive and uncomfortable. To get a birth control pill, you first need a prescription from a doctor. This means you would have to schedule a consultation, deal with long waiting times at the clinic, and then make …

Women preparing to give birth at some hospitals in New York City will no longer have to labor alone, nor will they need to remain isolated from their partner or family while recovering in the hospital after delivery, state officials said. Melissa DeRosa, the secretary to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, …