A transgender man who surprised the world in April by revealing he was pregnant gave birth Sunday to a baby girl at a hospital here. Thomas Beatie, 34, who switched gender from woman to man, delivered his baby at the St. Charles Medical Center. He gave birth naturally.

A 5-year-old Kentucky girl with a rare disease was refused by two airlines to board a plane from Canada to China for her treatment, saying she was too sick to fly. The girl was to receive stem cell treatments for a rare fatal disease at a Beijing hospital. After being treated at a Vancouver hospital for seizures, Miranda Goranflo and her daughter Hailey were forced to fly home to Shepherdsville, KY, when the airlines, Air China and Air Canada, decided during a layover in Vancouver, British Columbia, that she was not fit to fly for 11-hour trip.

A Texas couple has given birth to quintuplets at a Phoenix hospital nationally known for its successful multiple-birth deliveries. Three girls and two boys, who are expected to debut in Houston in August, were delivered last Thursday to 33-year-old mother Ellen Howell. Doctors at the Banner Good Samaritan Medical Center delivered the five babies via elective caesarean section within three minutes of each other. Though they arrived nine weeks early, each weighed about two pounds and appear healthy.

A U. S. official said that two medical choppers collided in mid-air killing at least six passengers, and leaving one in critical condition in Arizona. Authorities said the incident occurred near a hospital in Flagstaff, around 3:45 p. m. local time on Sunday, when both helicopters were on their way to the hospital.

A U. S. official said that two medical choppers collided in mid-air killing at least six passengers, and leaving one in critical condition in Arizona. Authorities said the incident occurred near a hospital in Flagstaff, around 3:45 p. m. local time on Sunday, when both helicopters were on their way to the hospital.