Doctors take a sample of the baby’s blood, usually by pricking its heel, and test for proteins and other markers associated ...

But new evidence has started to challenge the notion that human childbirth is uniquely dangerous. A new paper published today ...

The tight fit of a baby's head through a mother's birth canal, which causes great difficulty in childbirth, is not unique to humans, as previously understood. Instead, some small-bodied primate babies ...