Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A California state law passed in January that required food makers to add folic acid to corn masa ...

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — A California state law passed in January that required food makers to add folic acid to corn masa flour. An afterthought for some, but for mothers in early stages of ...

A woman gave birth over the weekend during a flight from Jamaica to New York. Caribbean Airlines said the “medical event” occurred on flight BW005, which departed from Kingston on April 4. “Upon ...

Doctors advise women to stop using GLP-1s before conceiving because of possible health risks. A new study investigates pregnancy outcomes and offers some surprising findings. Women with obesity or ...

Birth tourism in the U.S. remains notoriously difficult to measure, but Solicitor General John Sauer on Wednesday pointed the Supreme Court to what he called "striking" figures as the justices weighed ...

The term refers to pregnant women who travel to the United States to give birth so that their baby can have American citizenship. By Amy Qin When the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Wednesday ...

Birth defects are physical or functional abnormalities present at birth. They include club foot (pictured), heart conditions, neural tube defects (such as spina bifida), Down syndrome, cleft ...

Bruce Lesley is incensed at one dimension of the debate about birthright citizenship that he says is being completely overlooked. "It's in the words: 'birth' right citizenship — this is about babies." ...

Fifteen years after she lost her first baby to a rare and devastating birth defect, Andrea Lopez takes comfort in knowing that other Latina mothers might finally avoid the same pain. In January, ...

When marine biologist Shane Gero spotted a plume of blood spreading across the water where a group of sperm whales had gathered in the Caribbean, he feared the worst — injury to one of the whales, ...

In this photo provided by Andrea Lopez, she cradles her son, Gabriel Crude, at a hospital Bakersfield, Calif., in 2011, where he was born with anencephaly, a rare and severe birth defect tied to a ...