Iryna Bird, a Ukrainian-born researcher, is leading the study of Zika virus transmission at Johns Hopkins University in the United States. This virus, which has infected the countries of Latin America, is one of the least researched at the moment, writes “Voice of America”. A child born with microcephaly has a disproportionate ...

The sunny city of Miami has long been a mecca for maternity tourism. More and more women from the CIS countries come here to give their unborn child an American passport. ForumDaily talked anonymously with a girl who came to the United States to give birth on a tourist visa. She was planning childbirth ...

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will go on maternity leave for two months after the birth of his daughter. He announced this on his official page on the social network. “This is a very personal decision, and I decided to take two months of parental leave,” - ...

“To get to Sunny Isles Beach, we will soon need a Russian visa,” a Hispanic taxi driver tells me. Sunny is the suburb of Miami with the largest Russian-speaking population in Florida (about ten percent according to the latest census). In local media, he is sometimes called "little ...

As President Barack Obama himself admitted, the United States is the only developed country in the world that does not have paid maternity leave. In the US, no one really gives anybody a paid decree - the state only guarantees "vacation at its own expense" for twelve weeks. A bit better…

In California, US law enforcement raids aimed at uncovering an illegal network helping pregnant women from other countries travel to the United States for childbirth. Under US law, a child born in the country is eligible for US citizenship. Therefore, foreign women wishing to ...