Obstetrics

A pair of gay dads are expecting a baby together after one of them, who is transgender, became pregnant.
Trystan Reese, 34, and Biff Chaplow, from Portland, have revealed that they will be welcoming a child this summer after experiencing a heart-breaking miscarriage at six weeks in 2016, when trans-dad Trystan became pregnant for the first time.

The City of Athens and Athens University's Health for All initiative invite citizens to take advantage of free medical exams that will be conducted at the Fourth District community center on the corner of Lenorman Street and Alexandras Avenue, as of 10.30 a.m. on Saturday.

A joint inspection by UN children's agency UNICEF and the Ministry of Health begins on Monday in a bid to further reduce infections after the country was criticized for poor conditions in maternity units.

A Bulgarian driver has been found dead behind the wheel of his truck on the A7 motorway in the department of Isere in southeastern France, AFP reported on Wednesday.

"The autopsy took place this morning and revealed blows that hadn't been detected during the initial examination," AFP quoted a French prosecution official as saying. "Obviously, he had been beaten."

Norway ranks as the world's best place to be a mother, well ahead of the United States which dropped to the 33rd spot in the annual scorecard released by Save the Children on May 4.

33 year-old Dr. Ram Prasad Sapkota was in the Prasuti Griha hospital in Kathmandu. He faced a challenge that very few in his line of work can claim to have experienced. He was operating on a very difficult birth, when the 7.8 Richter earthquake struck Nepal.

One obscure fact out of the devastating quake that struck Nepal over the weekend is the fact that the Himalayan country is used by many same-sex couples in Israel for surrogate pregnancies.

Britain could become the first country in the world to allow the creation of IVF babies with DNA from three parents on Feb. 3 in a move that has divided campaigners and religious leaders.
      
Lawmakers in parliament are set to vote on mitochondrial DNA donation techniques aimed at preventing serious inherited diseases.
      

The Church of Greece’s Holy Synod said Thursday that it supports couples having IVF treatment but is against mothers aborting their babies, regardless of whether the children have been diagnosed as having physical or mental problems.

Maternal deaths have fallen by 45% worldwide since 1990, statistics of the UN and the World Health Organization (WHO) show.

Over half a million women died during childbirth in 1990, while in 2013 the figure was 289,000.