https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Italy’s health minister is proposing doubling a ‘baby bonus’ incentive for couples to have more children to combat what she calls a catastrophic decline in the country’s birth rate. https://www.thelocal.it/20160515/italy-set-to-double-baby-bonus-to-fight-birth-rate-apocalypse Sun, 15 May 2016 18:36:24 +0200 italy-set-to-double-baby-bonus-to-fight-birth-rate-apocalypse Italy's health ministry said on Tuesday that probes into a spate of women dying in childbirth had uncovered issues in the handling of three fatal cases, but stopped short of suggesting lives might have been saved. https://www.thelocal.it/20160113/probe-reveals-problems-in-italy-childbirth-deaths Wed, 13 Jan 2016 09:23:56 +0100 probe-reveals-problems-in-italy-childbirth-deaths A couple living in the northern Italian city of Parma are planning to take legal action against healthcare providers in Parma after their baby was born without lower legs. https://www.thelocal.it/20160107/parents-plan-to-sue-after-baby-born-without-legs Thu, 07 Jan 2016 13:32:35 +0100 parents-plan-to-sue-after-baby-born-without-legs Italy's health minister has ordered a series of investigations after five women died in childbirth in seven days, shocking a nation with one of the lowest maternal mortality rates in the world. https://www.thelocal.it/20160103/italy-in-shock-over-spate-of-childbirth-deaths Sun, 03 Jan 2016 18:13:20 +0100 italy-in-shock-over-spate-of-childbirth-deaths