A planned U.S.-funded study of a hepatitis B vaccine drew widespread condemnation from researchers. Now the host country says it cannot proceed.

The Newborn Essential Solutions and Technologies (NEST360) international alliance launched Phase 2 of its groundbreaking mission to reduce newborn mortality in sub-Saharan Africa with $65 million in ...

Saturday marked a momentous occasion at Disney’s Animal Kingdom in Florida, where officials announced an African elephant calf was born at the park for the first time in seven years. The baby girl ...

HOUSTON – Women researchers at Rice University have invented a device that can help keep more newborns alive in Africa. Each year, an estimated 1.1 million infants die in Africa. Countries there have ...

Saint Louis Zoo in Missouri announced the birth of four baby African painted dogs, an endangered species. They shared ...

NEARLY one million babies are stillborn in Africa every year. Behind every stillbirth is a mother, a family and a story left untold.Most of these are preventable, many unrecorded, and too often ...