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It was thought that fetal immune cells were too immature to be useful and that fetuses and newborns relied on antibodies provided by their mothers. Now David Vermijlen at the Institute for Medical Immunology in Brussels, Belgium, and his colleagues have shown that fetuses just 21 weeks old may be capable of fending off infections using ...

And another study shows that 36% of mothers were deficient in vitamin D, too.

A single-mom soldier who says she refused to deploy to Afghanistan because she had no family able to care for her young son will ...

There is a swelling class of first-time entrepreneurs, and they need help. This class includes, among others, mompreneurs (women who saw business-building as a way to bolster their retirement stash and waning self-esteem from being out of the workforce for years); homepreneurs (recently laid-off cubicle warriors, or just those fed up with their 90-minute commutes); and boomerpreneurs (50- to 70-year-old careerists driven to pursue lifelong dreams while they still have the health and gumption to do it).

Just days after birth, German and French infants' wails mimicked the patterns of their languages.

Spectators flocked to an Indonesian hospital Friday for a glimpse of the country's largest ever recorded baby - a 19.2-pound (8.7 kilogram) boy born by cesarean section to a diabetic mother.

Mothers and daughters often have a complicated relationship, so when the two are close as adults, everything is great, right? ...

Katherine Nadal's defense attorneys said an expert will back up the 28-year-old woman's claim it could have been the family dog that mutilated her son in their suburban Houston apartment

A Long Island mother was very drunk, with an extra-large bottle of vodka in her car, and was smoking marijuana before she caused a wrong-way crash on a New York highway that killed her, her young daughter and six others, police said Tuesday.

A Spanish woman believed to have become the world's oldest new mother when she gave birth at 66 has died at 69, leaving behind twin toddlers, newspapers reported Wednesday.