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is the most traumatic activity the human body can go through, scientists have said. Ideally, a new mother is expected to have recovered from birth trauma in about 6 weeks. A team of researchers ...

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Birth rates are falling and life expectancy is rising, meaning the country does not have enough young workers.

We ask doctors to cure us of incurable illnesses, and we ask lawyers to take on the doctors who haven’t. We are frightened ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- “C” in “CLE” stands for Cleveland and ‘Clinched’ playoffs/Central Division Championship which the Cleveland Guardians did Thursday and Saturday. Thursday the Guards ...

The Washington Post removed from its website a cartoon that highlighted Hamas’s use of human shields after the caricature sparked pushback within the newsroom and from readers, including claims ...

The best way to honor the principles that gave birth to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is to reveal and highlight to the world how human rights have been, and are being, violated by the ...

Newborn babies' brains aren't "underdeveloped" compared with those of other primates at birth, a new study suggests. In the ...