South Korean Adoptions and a Nation’s Painful Past
South Korean adoptees have been returning to the country to hold the government accountable for what they call a corrupt adoption system that went largely unchanged until recent decades.
Babies and Infants
Nurse Lucy Letby Faces Possible Life in Prison for Killing U.K. Newborns
Lucy Letby was convicted last week of murdering seven newborns and trying to kill six other babies, making her the most prolific killer of children in modern British history.
FDA Panel Recommends RSV Shot to Protect Infants
Advisers to the agency overwhelmingly agreed that a new treatment would help to prevent a potentially lethal respiratory illness in very young children.
One Indian State Is Desperate for More Babies
India will soon be history’s most populous country. But the growth is uneven, and the Himalayan state of Sikkim is offering cash incentives to encourage births.
FDA Panel Recommends RSV Vaccine to Protect Young Infants
A committee of experts voted in favor of a new shot administered to pregnant women, one in a series of new ways to arm the very young against a life-threatening virus.
Surrogacy Emerges as the Wedge Issue for Italy’s Hard Right
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has ordered municipalities to stop certifying foreign birth certificates for same-sex couples who used surrogacy, leaving some babies in a legal limbo.
Scotland’s Leader Apologizes for Past Practice of Forced Adoptions
Nicola Sturgeon said the practice, which was relatively common until the 1970s, was among the gravest injustices in Scottish history.
In Rural Ukraine, a Mobile Clinic Provides Medicine and Hope
A mobile clinic is trying to restore medical services to villages once occupied by Russian forces as fighting rages nearby. “They’ll never beat our people,” a specialist with the team said.
A Dilemma for Governments: How to Pay for Million-Dollar Therapies
A wave of transformative but hugely expensive treatments is challenging the budgets of health systems in wealthy nations. Now countries with far fewer resources are wrestling with how to cover the therapies.