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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eight months pregnant and in pain, Stephanie Rosell went to the Holy Family hospital emergency room after an infection began ...

Mother ‘extremely vulnerable and will require significant help and support in dealing with her difficulties’, court hears ...

Recovering addict Shawn Johnson opted out of taking narcotic pain medications after giving birth to her and husband Andrew East’s third child because she was fearful of falling back into old habits.

State-funded pilot will provide financial incentives, treatment and family support to help pregnant women with addiction and ...

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – A legal battle is brewing over how New Mexico handles drug-addicted babies. Two state lawmakers have joined the ACLU of New Mexico in a lawsuit arguing that a Children, Youth and ...

I live in the heartland of the opioid epidemic on the Vermont-New Hampshire border, where I practice and teach medical students and residents in a hospital nursery. Ten percent of newborns here are ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- An unborn baby is affected by everything an expectant mother does. That can become a very big problem when a mother makes poor choices like smoking, drinking and doing drugs. The ...

Thousands of babies have been born hooked on drugs in England over the past decade, new data has revealed. More than 1,000 newborns have received treatment in England’s hospitals each year since 2014 ...

City lawmakers are proposing a major overhaul of the District's child protection law that would for the first time require D.C. social workers to open abuse and neglect investigations whenever babies ...

More than 1,000 babies were born last year in Tennessee addicted to drugs. It's a trend that has grown each of the last 14 years. Now, the state is looking for new ways to break the cycle. So far this ...