In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite, Elvis Presley bought Graceland and the Wham-O toy company started selling the Frisbee. In July of that same year, I was born. I’m little hurt ...

ATLANTA More babies were born in the United States in 2007 than any year in the nation’s history, topping the peak during the baby boom 50 years earlier, federal researchers reported Wednesday. There ...

Since peaking in the mid-1950s, birth rates among US adolescents have been on a long-term decline, and new data contained in a National Vital Statistics Report released today are no exception. The ...

In 1957, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a new drug called Enovid for menstrual regulation. On the bottle was a warning label stating that this drug had another function—it also ...

The Social Security Administration's data shows what parents were naming their newborns three-quarters of a century ago.

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ATLANTA -- A record-setting number of babies were born in the United States in 2007, and it may prove to be just another reminder of prosperity lost. In good times, we reproduce. In bad times, we ...

Since the 1950s, birth rates have plummeted in the developing world—nations also known as low- and middle-income countries. While women in many parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America once had six or ...