Some of a newborn’s biggest future influences begin long before the first sleepless night. Bringing a new baby ...

A child's early story begins long before assessment. Understanding that context can transform how clinicians and families ...

The children of mothers born with heart defects face a higher risk of being developmentally vulnerable, meaning they face ...

Extremely preterm birth (before 28 weeks of gestation) places infants into the world at one of the most extraordinary moments in human development. The brain at this stage is not simply growing; it is ...

Analyzing pollutants like particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide, which are emitted by traffic exhaust, the researchers ...

SINGAPORE – At a time when fewer Singaporean women are having children, more of those in their 40s are bucking the trend. In 2025, 9.6 babies were born per 1,000 women aged between 40 and 44, up from ...

Two landmark studies of a rare sperm whale birth observation in the Caribbean are reshaping scientists’ understanding of cooperation in the animal kingdom, revealing that whales in unrelated family ...

SINGAPORE - Less than two weeks before she gave birth, Ms Fionice Teoh, a DBS assistant service manager at the bank’s Century Square branch, served a woman in her 70s who looked agitated. She had gone ...

A birth defect, or congenital anomaly, is any medical condition a person has from birth. Congenital means acquired in the womb. Birth defects are medical conditions that range from mild to more severe ...

In Australia, an estimated one in ten men experience mental health issues such as anxiety and depression before and after their child is born (the perinatal period). Alongside emotional ups and downs ...