Deaths, Child Birth | featured news

Robert Edwards, a Nobel prizewinner from Britain whose pioneering in vitro fertilization research led to the first test tube baby and has since brought millions of people into the world, died Wednesday at age 87....

A sheriff's deputy in New York died Tuesday after being shot at the end of a standoff, and his wife went into labor with their second child upon hearing the news, local media reported.

With just 71 babies born on average for every 100 deaths, Brooke County, in West Virginia, has the largest such gap in the nation among counties in metropolitan areas.

Every day in the United States, thousands of women and families experience one of the most joyous occasions in their lifetime -- the birth of a child.