After more than a year without labor and delivery services, the reopening of the New Beginnings Birth Center at Prowers Medical Center is proving to be a critical resource for families across the ...

A new birthing center in Lawrence will combine two midwifery practices under one roof to offer holistic care to locals ...

In Nigeria, an estimated 75,000 women die every year from causes related to pregnancy and childbirth. This translates to about 206 women every day and one woman every seven minutes. In other words, ...

The death of a Black midwife following complications from giving birth has renewed difficult questions surrounding inequities ...

A new study by researchers at Mass General Brigham finds that patients who undergo unscheduled or unplanned cesarean deliveries are at substantially increased risk of experiencing acute psychological ...

This article was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s National Fellowship Dennis A.

Good prenatal care and in-hospital obstetricians are helping reduce the risks to pregnancy locally. Ana Ramon-Francisco in ...