MOSCOW - Russian police said Thursday they have detained a woman suspected of killing her newborn twins and hiding their bodies for five years in the walk-in freezer of a food store where she worked.Police in the Sverdlovsk region said they had detained a 30-year-old woman after finding the bodies ...

NEW DELHI More than 300,000 babies die within 24 hours of being born in India each year from infections and other preventable causes, a report said Tuesday, blaming a lack of political will and funding for the crisis.India accounts for 29 percent of all newborn deaths worldwide, according to the ...

LONDON - Babies are to be vaccinated against a highly infectious bug that is one of the most common causes of diarrhoea in children. From September 2013, infants aged between two and four months will be immunised against rotavirus, which causes diarrhoea, vomiting, abdominal pain, fever and ...

KARACHI - Mehmoodabad police recovered bodies of five premature babies from garbage dump located in Akhtar Colony here on Tuesday. The bodies were shifted to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for autopsy as a large number of people watched. The residents of Sector E informed the police about the ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER RENALA KHURD - Executive District Officer (EDO) Health Dr Muhammad Ashraf Javed has said that care and vaccination can save babies from mortality. He said this while addressing a seminar on Mother and Child Week being observed under the auspices of the National Maternal Newborn ...

Dem Babies as proud parents Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon affectionately refer to their twins, who were born in April 2011 will meet the world this Friday. The singer and actor have been able to keep twins Monroe and Moroccan out of the spotlight for nearly six months, but will give ABCs Barbara ...

MOGADISHU (AFP) - With a ragged breath soft as the beat of a butterfly's wing, two-year old Mahmud Mohamed sighed, rolled his eyes upwards towards his mother, and died, succumbing to the effects of the extreme drought ravaging the Horn of Africa. "My child is gone," his mother Mulmilla said ...

BABIES under a year old should not be given cows milk because it is much too salty for them, nutritionists have warned. It is almost four times as salty as breast milk, say researchers who have found that those fed cows milk before 12 months tended to have the highest salt diets. Dr Pauline ...

A US father and fitness expert has written a book telling other dads how to turn their babies into effective gym equipment. Joshua Levitt says he came up with the idea for Baby Barbells after realising there was less time to hit the gym following the birth of his own children. Mr Levitt, 36, a ...

In a society that values the birth of a baby boy over that of a girl it's still an alarming fact that an increasing number of Indian families with one girl are aborting subsequent pregnancies when prenatal tests show the baby is also female. It may be a surprise to some that the decline in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) - A video of a pair of diaper-clad babies seemingly engaged in an animated conversation in a home kitchen was a fast-spreading YouTube sensation on Wednesday. The two-minute snippet of the lively exchange between twin brothers barely old enough to stand has been watched more ...

LOUNGING around wrapped in knitwear and peering inquisitively from wicker baskets these sleeping and playful tots would melt any heart. All the babies pictured are aged between six and 14 days which helps explain why many are still blissfully sleepy. Props such as knitted hats and sheepskin ...

ENERGY-saving light bulbs were at the centre of a fresh health scare last night after researchers claimed they can release potentially harmful amounts of mercury if broken. Levels of toxic vapour around smashed eco-bulbs were up to 20 times higher than the safe guideline limit for an indoor area, ...

YOUNG children dont find yawning contagious, according to a new British study. James Anderson and Ailsa Millen from the University of Stirling report in this weeks issue of the journal Biology Letters that babies and toddlers almost never yawn back at someone who yawns at them. This is in stark ...

A CHEMICAL found in toothpaste and other toiletries has been linked to brain damage in unborn babies, a study has revealed. Scientists are worried after new findings revealed that triclosan can contribute to brain damage in the womb; the study found that pregnant women who are exposed to high ...

Disputing earlier theories which say that babies develop signs of jealousy during what are called the terrible twos, a new study shows they exhibit this emotion even before they can crawl. Maria Legerstee, professor of psychology at York University here, has found that babies as old as three months ...

A STUDY by York University researchers reveals that infants as young as six months old know when were playing them and they dont like it. Researchers in Yorks Centre for Infancy Studies examined 6-and 9-month-old babies reactions to a game in which an experimenter was either unable or unwilling to ...

NEWBORN babies cry with regional 'accents copied from their mothers, researchers have shown. An astonishing new study found that the screams of a five-day-old French baby have a distinct Gallic twang, while German babies have a Teutonic quality to their yells. The discovery suggests that babies are ...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - More than 400,000 Indian babies die every year from preventable causes within 24 hours of their birth, despite the countrys recent economic development, a new report said Monday. India accounts for a fifth of all newborn deaths worldwide, according to the major report published by ...

RAWALPINDI - In a rare case of alleged carelessness of the doctors and staffers of Gyne ward of Benazir Bhutto Hospital (BBH), two newly born babies on Tuesday were exchanged wrongly, causing immense woes to the parents of both infants for over well five hours. According to reports, the mental ...

PREGNANT mothers will soon be able to play their favourite songs to their unborn children with the invention of an MP3 players for babies. Named the BLABY, the device consists of a contoured belt that wraps around a mothers waist with three inbuilt vibration speakers playing music into the womb. ...

FIFTY-year-old Mahbuba has four sons, but she always wanted to have a daughter. Faced with a complex adoption procedure, she decided to take the easier option - to buy a baby. "The moment I heard that a woman in a maternity hospital was selling her newborn daughter, I rushed there," Mahbuba said. ...

BABIES who are fed fish are far less likely to develop eczema, scientists have found. They say the introduction of fish into the diet before the age of nine months reduces the risk of developing the skin condition. Eczema affects seven million in the UK, including one in ten children. ...

IT will be months before they talk, walk or even sit up. But at just a day old, babies have a strong sense of rhythm, say researchers. Newborns are also sensitive to pitch and melody, they found. Experts said that introducing a child to music at an early age could enhance these innate musical ...

BEIJING (AFP) - China said Wednesday more than 6,000 babies had fallen ill and three died after drinking milk powder contaminated with a toxic chemical, as it vowed massive efforts to contain a widening food scandal. In the latest debacle to tarnish the "Made in China" label, authorities ...

PEOPLE magazine has won the bidding for the North American rights to publish exclusive photos of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's newborn twins, Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon. And the price is astronomical, even if it's going to charity. People, along with Hello magazine, which beat out OK ...

PARIS (AFP) - British researchers say they have found strains of germs that appear to play a stealthy role in the rare but mysterious disorder known as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). Also known as cot death, SIDS is defined as the sudden and unexpected death of an infant aged between a ...