Success in the business world is not always measured in dollars and cents. Sometimes, success is the result of self-determination, inspiration — and just plain luck. Look at Barbi Costanza, 40, as an example.

BELLFLOWER, Calif. - A woman gave birth Monday to eight babies, only the second time in history octuplets have survived more than a few hours, doctors said.

MANHASSET, N.Y. - When they get older, Logan, Eli and Collin Penn may blanch at the notion they wore nail polish to their first press conference. But it's the only way their parents know how to tell the boys apart right now.

ATLANTA  — U.S. births fell in 2008, probably because of the recession, updated government figures confirm. The one exception to the trend was the birth rate among women in their 40s, who perhaps felt they didn't have the luxury of waiting for better economic times.

Tiny knees to chest, tiny hand to mouth, the baby snuggles peacefully with her brothers and sister. “She has your nose, Jayne,” Jeremiah Cluff teases his wife.

Vanessa Segura thought the discomfort she was feeling 30 weeks into her pregnancy was normal.

Arizona voters may not get a chance to vote to reelect the president.

Arizona voters may not get a chance to vote to reelect the president.

Arizona voters may not get a chance to vote to reelect the president.

PHOENIX - A Texas woman has given birth to five babies, two boys and three girls, at a Phoenix hospital.

PHOENIX - Health officials say the number of babies born in Arizona last year exceeded 100,000 for the first time in state history.

Infections are around us all our lives. Most seem to be short-lived, miserable bouts of intestinal or respiratory bugs that so often drive us to a doctor.

The doors to the neonatal intensive care unit at Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center swung open last month to four tiny siblings. Stephanie Mast’s three girls and one boy became the Phoenix hospital’s 69th set of quadruplets.

Dr. Jay Nemiro says the "big wow" in his line of work used to be women in their 40s getting pregnant. Thanks to modern medicine, the reproductive endocrinologist now calls the "big wow" women over 50 having babies.

A newly published study from researchers at Case Western Reserve University, School of Dental Medicine reported the first documented link between a mother with pregnancy-associated gum disease to the death of her fetus. Other published studies have linked pregnancy-associated gum disease to pre-term birth, low birth weight babies, and gestational diabetes.

A newly published study from researchers at Case Western Reserve University, School of Dental Medicine reported the first documented link between a mother with pregnancy-associated gum disease to the death of her fetus. Other published studies have linked pregnancy-associated gum disease to pre-term birth, low birth weight babies, and gestational diabetes.

Pinal County residents are going to be some of the first in Arizona to participate in a two-decade, nationwide study of children's health, thanks to a $44 million grant awarded to the University of Arizona's Department of Pediatrics.

Little Peter Standage looked into nurse Nancy Simpson's eyes and curled his lips into a big baby smile.

LOS ANGELES -- A national medical society is investigating whether a fertility doctor followed its guidelines when he implanted six embryos into a Southern California woman who gave birth to octuplets last month.

When you don’t think the impossible is impossible, you go about life differently and it reflects in your work. Just ask Mesa doctor John Elliott, a well-known perinatologist who delivered two sets of quintuplets at Mesa’s Banner Desert Medical Center in a three-week time frame.

A new report suggests an upcoming surge in Arizona's Hispanic population.

August 5, 2004

Surrounded by the protection of barbed-wire fences and cement barricades, the United States Forces — Iraq flag was furled for the last time during an unpretentious ceremony in Baghdad on Dec. 15. It has been a long nine years. At the war’s onset in 2003, troops were promised the only way to return home was through Baghdad. Nine years, two administrations, and multiple tours later — with mission finally accomplished — troops are headed home to celebrate Christmas.