Falling German Birthrate Dispels Baby Miracle Myth
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A Berlin neighborhood known for its baby boom reveals that in a nation with a graying population, treasure hunts often end in disappointment.
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The biological clock matters even if a would-be mother uses special reproductive technology. The rate of successful pregnancies using laboratory fertility techniques drops from 37 percent to about 4 percent as women get older, a new study shows.
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Out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly four in 10 babies born last year, government health officials said Tuesday.
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A 67-year-old retired Romanian university teacher is seven months&#39; pregnant with twins after almost a decade of treatment in fertility clinics, doctors reported yesterday.
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Paying women to have babies has helped Australia boost its birthrate well above that of other developed nations, new figures have shown.
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NEW YORK  - A method of natural family planning that closely monitors two indicators of fertility is just as effective as oral contraception in preventing unwanted pregnancies if used correctly, European researchers report.
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WASHINGTON - Japan, Germany and many other large industrialized countries face long-term population slowdowns or declines as more young adults have fewer children or delay child-rearing, demographers say.    While the world's population is expected to increase by almost 50 percent by 2050, Japan could lose 20 percent of its population over the next half-century, according to data released Tuesday by the private Population Reference Bureau...
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his wife, Doris, have adopted a 3-year-old Russian girl, German newspapers have reported.
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The German chancellor&#39;s decision to adopt a young child has unleashed massive media coverage. SchrÃ¶der&#39;s been fighting revelations about his private life but the current attention could help rather than harm his career.
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When a newborn baby girl was left in  Japan&#39;s controversial &quot;baby hatch&quot; last week, the child&#39;s life  may have been saved, but her chances of finding new parents  were slim due to a cultural aversion to adoption in Japan.
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Parents insist that how kids turn out depends on when they were born. More and more, science agrees
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Â· Highest fertility rate in 26 years 'unsustainable'Â· Thinktank calls for better funded family planning
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A fertility technique that repairs a woman&#39;s faulty eggs using DNA transferred from elsewhere in her body has led to the births of 20 children, scientists have revealed.
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A jump in the number of babies born at  abnormally low birth weights was the main reason why the U.S.  infant mortality rate rose in 2002 for the first time in 44  years, according to a federal study released on Monday.
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England's strategy to reduce teenage pregnancies is working but the pace of decline is not enough to meet its target of halving the rate of conceptions by the end of the decade, scientists said on Friday.
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German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder confirmed on Wednesday that he and his wife have adopted a child, reported to be a girl from a Russian orphanage, but has called on the media to respect his family&#39;s privacy.
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Many advanced countries face collapsing populations. Making it easier for women to work may be the best way to increase birthrates.