ST. LOUIS — Jean Renaud became septic just weeks after she gave birth to her first child. “I ended up with appendicitis, and I could not nurse,” she said. Her pediatrician recommended her newborn get ...

TORONTO — A surgical team scurries around a pregnant female pig lying unconscious on an operating table. They're about to take part in an experiment that could help provide a new option to help ...

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- For Kristine Atom and her son Kieran, afternoon time often starts with reading. But the sound of Mom's voice has already done more than spark his imagination. It may have helped ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration met Wednesday to discuss something that was once thought to be only science fiction: the use of artificial wombs that could potentially help premature babies ...

Artificial wombs could someday save babies born very prematurely. Even though the experimental technology is still in animal tests, there are... An artificial womb could build a bridge to health for ...

Surgeon Christoph Haller and his research team from Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children are working on technology that could someday result in an artificial womb to help extremely premature babies.

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