According to Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, the State Duma, the lower chamber of the Russian parliament, will shortly outlaw foreigners paying Russian women to carry their children. Early December will see the passage of a measure on the subject, he added. On Sunday, Volodin said on his Telegram channel, “The selling of children is abhorrent.” “45,000 toddlers born to surrogate moms... 

A new study shows that an infant’s brain reprocesses what it has learned and creates new knowledge even during sleep. Babies from 9 to 16 months of age remember the names of objects better if they had a short nap, German researchers from the University of Tübingen and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in the city of Leipzig, both in Germany, said in a study. The sleeping... 

A new study conducted by researchers from Brown University has demonstrated that breastfeeding plays significant role in brain development in infants. The research team analyzed the brain growth in a sample group of children by specialized, baby-friendly magnetic resonance imaging quiet MRI when they were asleep, according to paper published in the journal NeuroImage. They observed 133 babies ranging... 

A US commission has advised that anthrax vaccination trials be carried out on children. The board gave strict guidelines for testing to put infants at no more than “minimal risk,” but critics accuse them of using children as guinea pigs. The presidential commission described the necessity to test the vaccine on children because in the event of a mass bioterrorist attack a large proportion of the... 

Whatever the actual risks for EU-national mothers in Irish hospitals, if their babies are fed infant formula, it will contain amounts of fluoride that are neither safe nor medically legal in other EU member states. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland’s (‘FSAI’) guide of 19th Nov 2012 (1) recommends Irish tap water be used to make up baby bottles even though this is totally at odds with safety... 

A snapshot left at a so-called maternity house in California. The building inspectors and police officers walked into the small row of connected town houses here knowing something was amiss. Neighbors had complained about noise and a lot of pregnant women coming and going. And when they went into a kitchen they saw a row of clear bassinets holding several infants, with a woman acting as a nurse hovering...