Campaigners have slammed a new NHS document which highlights the supposed benefits of marriages between cousins. Despite evidence that the practice carries an increased risk of birth defects, it says ...

LAHORE, Pakistan—The trend of marriages between cousins, within a clan or caste should be discouraged as the number of children suffering from a group of genetic diseases, called Lysosomal Storage ...

The NHS has been urged to apologise for publishing guidance extolling the benefits of first-cousin marriage despite the increased risk of birth defects. Guidance published last week by the NHS England ...

On its blog late last month, the NHS’s Genomics Education Programme responded to Tory calls to ban marriages between first cousins with the retort that, actually, the practice comes with “including ...

Far-right Republican Rep. Gino Bulso held up a bill in the Tennessee legislature on Thursday that would have outlawed first cousin marriage with a surprising argument: if gay first cousins can get ...