Obstetrics

The Health Ministry has initiated work to outlaw surrogate motherhood in Turkey and seeks to have the relevant law changed, introducing a jail sentence of between two and five years for those found guilty of the act. 

Prince William and his wife, the Duchess of Cambridge, are expecting their third child. And for the third time - as with her previous two pregnancies - the former Kate Middleton is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, or severe morning sickness.

Annually, the state will allocate nearly BGN 3 million more to finance another in vitro procedure, reported BGNES.

An Australian nurse and two Cambodian assistants were found guilty of running an illegal commercial surrogacy clinic in Cambodia on Aug. 3 and sentenced to 1-1/2 years in prison.

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.