Spain's upper house of parliament on Wednesday passed legislation easing access to abortion, giving a final stamp of approval to a law fiercely opposed by the Roman Catholic Church and the conservative opposition. The Senate approved the law tabled by Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's Socialist government with 132 votes in favour, 126 against and one abstention ...

Former British prime minister Tony Blair met Sierra Leone President Ernest Koroma Wednesday on progress made in providing free healthcare to pregnant women and children under five. "The idea is that if you provide the health care free, more people will access the service and more children and mothers will stay alive," Blair told AFP on a visit to Rokupa ...

LONDON (Reuters) - A woman has given birth to two children after her fertility was restored using transplants of ovarian tissue, the first time the complex treatment has produced two babies from separate pregnancies. Claus Yding Andersen, the Danish doctor who treated the woman, said the case showed how this method of storing ovarian tissue was a valid way of preserving ...

In what doctors described Wednesday as a world first, a Danish woman has given birth to two children after her fertility was restored using ovarian tissue that was removed, frozen, thawed and then reimplanted after cancer treatment. It is being hailed as a breakthrough for young women whose hope of one day becoming mothers could be wrecked by cancer therapy ...