NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya will add another job to his plate: acting CDC director, an administration official not authorized to speak publicly confirmed to STAT’s Chelsea Cirruzzo and Anil Oza.

Alas, there are no homunculi crammed inside the smallest human cells. Yet recent research in fertility and urology suggests Hartsoeker’s image could work metaphorically: Sperm can be a proxy for the ...

A global study has revealed the conditions under which non-native plants thrive in the world's many dryland regions and the ...

It seems like just such an obvious thing to do,” remote work expert Nick Bloom said. “As an economist, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the more obvious win, win, win policy.” ...

The potential 2028 presidential candidates will sound off on a range of burgeoning crises as European leaders recoil at ...

As U.S. fertility rates hit record lows, more Americans are redefining what family looks like, and for many, that means ...

French lawmakers Wednesday urged longer paid parental leave and more financial support to make it easier for people to have ...

A Swedish registry-based cohort study evaluated whether COVID-19 vaccination affected childbirth rates among women aged 18 to ...

But against all odds, South Korea is finally having more babies. The numbers have been slowly ticking up for over a year – a rare bit of good news for a government that has spent billions of dollars ...

Childbirths have grown at the fastest pace in 18 years on the Peninsula, with a 6.2% increase totaling 233,708 babies.

The consistency of the global pattern shows how hard these trend lines are to budge. Several nations have preceded the U.S. in confronting birthrate declines, and both traditionalist societies, where ...

Women may hold up half the sky, as Chinese Communist Party founder Mao Zedong once famously declared, but these days they must do so while also holding a baby — or preferably three — in their arms at ...