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January 22, 2016

Zika virus continues to spread; CDC expands travel alert to 22 destinations

Health authorities have added eight tropical destinations to a travel alert about an illness linked with a severe birth defect and spread by mosquitoes.

January 22, 2016

Researchers puzzled over why more babies being born with organs outside the body

Anna, Avery, Genevieve, Ian: Those are a handful of the names of American children with gastroschisis— whereby the intestines are born outside of the body, protruding from a hole beside the belly button— and who are featured in a new story series published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) this week.

January 22, 2016

Formerly conjoined twin heads home year after birth, brother still recovering

One of the formerly conjoined twin boys born in Jacksonville in December 2014 is now at home.

January 22, 2016

Skin cancer more deadly when caught during pregnancy

Melanoma, the deadliest form of skin cancer, may be even more dangerous when it's diagnosed in women during pregnancy or within a year of giving birth, a U.S. study suggests.

January 22, 2016

El Salvador urges against pregnancies until 2018 as Zika virus spreads

El Salvador on Thursday urged women in the Central American nation to avoid getting pregnant until 2018 to avoid their children developing birth defects from the mosquito-borne Zika virus which has rampaged through the Americas.

January 21, 2016

Video of premature twins holding hands goes viral

They may be small— a mere 2 pounds each— and born 11 weeks premature, but that hasn’t stopped newborn twins Kristian and Kristiana from starting to bond.

January 21, 2016

Mexican couple welcomes rare set of healthy quadruplets

A Mexican woman pregnant with quadruplets gave birth recently to four healthy babies: two boys and two girls.

January 21, 2016

Blizzard forecast may lead to a baby boom

This weekend’s forecast: 100 percent chance of swiping right.

January 21, 2016

Birth defects linked to Zika virus still rising in Brazil

The cases of babies born with unusually small heads continue to rise in Brazil where researchers said on Wednesday they had found new evidence linking the increase to the Zika virus spreading through the Americas.

January 20, 2016

Florida, Illinois report travel-related Zika cases

Travel-related cases of a mosquito-borne illness running rampant in Latin America have reached Florida and Illinois, officials in those states said Tuesday.