Out-of-wedlock births on the rise worldwide

Child birth is always related to the marraige, but this mindset is changing although at slower pace.This is what the National Center For Health Statistics says.And this is worl wide phenomena specially in developed part.Why this is happenning it is very difficult to analyse...

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is now a Grandmother!

That's right! Alaska Governor and former Republican V.P. Candidate Sarah Palin is now a grandmother. Her daughter Bristol (18) gave birth to a 7 lb. 4 oz. baby boy Sunday. Congrats! (Sources included in post)

U.S. - "We're 29th!!! We're 29th!!"... and dropping on infant mortality rates

And what a sad thing to be 29th and dropping in."The United States dropped to 29th in the world in infant mortality in 2004, the latest year that data are available from all countries, tying with Poland and Slovakia. The year before, it was 27th. In 1960, it was 12th. "The...

Britain set to become Europe's most populated country

Here's an interesting note for those in England who complain about immigration. Just a week after new population figures released in the UK showed that the population in that country is growing at quite a healthy rate, figures released for the EU as a whole show the...

US women are having fewer children, if at all

These days most of the American follow the trend of marrying later than ever and also not only interest in the wedlock has reduced drastically but the desire of married couples to produce babies has also gone. In an alarming news a study has revealed that American women...

2007 sees more population growth than baby boom

You know how whenever people talk about having kids, they inevitably talk about not wanting to bring a child into this environmentally doomed world? Well it looks like the stats back up that sentiment. More babies...

It's a Boy and a Girl for Jolie-Pitt: Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline

(July 12, 2008 - Nice, France)  Angelina Jolie has given birth to healthy twins, a girl and a boy. The babies were delivered by Caesarian section in Nice's Lanval hospital which overlooks the French Riviera....

Most British babies now born out of wedlock, but for some migrants, it's a ti...

"Half the children of British-born mothers are being born outside marriage, it emerged yesterday. In fact, official figures indicate that only a minority of children of long-standing British parents will grow up...

Patient Web sites used for news, support in crisis

"NEW YORK - When he was diagnosed with kidney cancer last year, Dave deBronkart needed an easy way to keep his far-flung friends and family updated. So did the president of the American Medical Association when he fell ill months ago. And so did the mother of a soldier...

Surge in US Hispanic Population Driven by Births, Not Immigration

The US census has confirmed that Hispanics are the fastest-growing minority group in the US, increasing by 1.4 million last year to 45.5 million, a 3.3 percent increase. This fact will surprise few, but what is interesting to note is that the majority of this growth has come...

Filipinos populating Milan, as 3 are born there daily--exec

Experiencing declining birth rates?  You know who to call...Needless to say, it's probably just the charm of the Filipino above anything else :)" Filipinos appear to be populating the design and fashion in the city of Milan, with the Philippine consulate general there...

Elderly Americans to double - 71 million by 2030

"Medical schools prepare for "silver tsunami" By Richard C. LewisMon Jan 28, 4:24 PM ET Just a few years ago, a graduate from Brown University medical school had just an inkling about how to care for the elderly. Now, Brown and other U.S. medical schools are plugging...

Tiny baby to leave Florida hospital

"Amillia Sonja Taylor was just 9 1/2 inches long and weighed less than 10 ounces when she was born Oct. 24. She was delivered 21 weeks and six days after conception. Full-term births come after 37 to 40 weeks."

Women 'birthing machines' says Japan's health minister

JAPAN'S health minister has provoked a storm of protest after he described women as "birth-giving machines" in a speech he gave on the country's falling birthrate. Hakuo Yanagisawa made the remarks in a speech he gave on Saturday as the government announced a council to draw...

Ahead Of Their Time

"How doctors are rethinking the growing problem of preterm births--by focusing on the moms, not the babies. In the U.S., one of the richest countries in the world, the number of babies born too early keeps going up--and with all their medical savvy, doctors can't figure out...

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