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Losing a baby in pregnancy through miscarriage or stillbirth is still a taboo subject worldwide, linked to stigma and shame. Many women still do not receive appropriate and respectful care when their baby dies during pregnancy or childbirth. Here, we share your stories from around the globe.

The average normal delivery in the United States costs over $10,000

The average cost for a baby delivery is $10,808, but that varies depending on what state you live in, your insurance, and the type of birth you have.

Infertility doesn't discriminate, but insurance companies and state legislatures do—by deciding which women deserve access to treatments.

“We don’t want to stop trying until we have a baby in our arms.”

Witches and bread? Spooky!

Witches and Bread? Spooky! If you want to learn more about the role ergotism might have played in the Salem witch trials, read more here: http://www.vox.com/2015/10/29/9620542/salem-witch-trials-ergotism

The research suggests that when intolerant white people fear democracy may benefit marginalized people, they abandon their commitment to democracy.

Exposing the damned lies of three science pioneers.

Word, word, word, word, word, word.

We don’t really know why it happens, but at least there is a term for it

While the enneagram test has been around for decades, its popularity is picking up speed. Experts in the study of personality evaluate its validity.

Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown said the decision was designed to prevent people from sharing officers' personal information on the internet.

In what may be the first known case of its kind, a faulty facial recognition match led to a Michigan man’s arrest for a crime he did not commit.

Complexity science explains why efforts to reject the mainstream merely result in a new conformity.

Asking about race on the U.S. census can help identify discrimination against minority groups. But sociologists say the question needs a makeover.

Researchers are looking in the wrong place: White people live longer not because of their DNA but because of inequality.

“It was torture. It was abuse. It was a living nightmare,” Paris Hilton tells Observer ahead of her new film ‘This Is Paris.’

They walk among us.

Al Roker and Craig Melvin opened up about their own experiences.

Women athletes are twice as likely as men to get concussed – and the effects are more severe.

By Emma Young. When obeying orders to hurt someone, people showed less activity in brain networks involved in feeling another’s pain

That’s a good boy.

Oh, and Chuck Liddell paints his toes, too!

Now experts say the controversial diagnosis may become part of the police defense.

Thirty years after trichotillomania was officially recognized as a disorder, a full recovery remains out of reach for many.

Identify your food based on the location of structural starch. Is a hot dog a sandwich? No, it's clearly a taco.

For decades, the conventional narrative that defined urban anomie overlooked a good Samaritan who heeded a dying woman’s cries for help.