China Dairy Boss Pleads Guilty in Melamine Case

The trial of the chairwoman of the now bankrupt Sunlu Group, a Chinese company at the centre of the tainted milk scandal, started today.  Sixty-six year old Tian Wenhua has pleaded guilty to charges of...

Hey, Facebook, What have you got Against Breastfeeding?

A mass online protest movement is gathering after Facebook banned some breastfeeding photos from their social network site.  Many people are upset that Facebook is classifying these photos "obscene," and are...

Sarah Palin's Daughter Gives Birth to a Son: Tripp Johnston

Sarah Palin's daughter, Bristol Palin, gave birth to a 7 lb 4oz son in Alaska on Sunday.  Bristol and her boyfriend, Levi Johnston, named their son Tripp Easton Mitchell Johnston.  Bristol's aunt Colleen...

14 Pound Baby Delivered in California

Sara and Richard Sault welcomed a second child into their lives on December 23, but were surprised when the doctors delivered a 14.2  lb baby by C-section.  It supposedly required two doctors to lift the...

Peru Christmas baby named Jesus

A Peruvian woman called Virgen Maria, who is married to a carpenter, has named her son Jesus Emanuel after giving birth on Christmas Day." Twenty-year-old Virgen Maria Huarcaya Palomino had not been due to give...

Chinese Dairy Bankrupt after Tainted Milk Scandal

Dairy producer Sanlu Group, at the center of a melamine scandal in September which sickened nearly 300,000 and killed at least 6 babies, has filed for bankruptcy. " A court in Shijiazhuang, China, where the company...

First UK baby screened for cancer due

The birth of the first baby in the UK to be screened free of a breast cancer inherited gene will be born soon. The treatment which sees a planned pregnancy approach with embryos containing the gene for breast...

Mother of Bristol Palin's fiance arrested for Oxycontin

The future mother-in-law of Bristol Palin, Sherry Johnston, mother of Levi Johnston, the father of Bristol Palin's baby, has been arrested in Alaska on drug charges. Bristol Palin is due to give birth to her baby...

New Health Canada Warnings for Children's Cold Medicine

Children under the age of six should never be given cold and cough medications, advised Health Canada on Thursday, after reviewing the effectiveness and potential dangers of the drugs. Health Canada had previously...

Adding Water to Baby Formula Could Be Deadly

During these tough economic times, many moms may be thinking of stretching their baby formula with extra water.  But, believe it or not, this can be toxic to a baby's tiny kidneys. " Many moms, especially in...

Rare Baby Hippo & Mom

A British zoo is celebrating the birth of a rare pygmy hippopotamus on Monday by inviting visitors to vote on its name. Raw Video: Rare Baby Hippo

Formula - for Baby, for Mommy and For Daddy

After the birth of my son John in July 2007, my wife had a difficult recovery, so she was given directions to drink this "Ensure" stuff. It occured to me that all of us had a "formula" of one sort or other, so I...