For the first time in U.S. history, more babies are being born to women over 40 than to teenagers. That’s according to a new ...

New birth data from the CDC reflects a major increase in birth rates among women over 40, as teen pregnancies continue to ...

The team behind CDC's U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (MEC) was another casualty in the mass layoffs ...

Work likely to be halted by the cuts includes the collection of data for studying Americans with sickle cell, a painful blood ...

One out of 31 children — more than 3% of kids — have been identified with autism, according to the latest results published ...

More than 40% of the 225 scientists and public health workers at the CDC's National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities (NCBDDD) were put on administrative leave earlier this ...

compared to only three in 10 births in 1990. The CDC found that these age-specific changes caused a shift in maternal age distributions. In 1990, females younger than 30 accounted for seven in 10 ...