The racial gap in maternal mortality is narrowing, driven largely by climbing death rates of white women with no more than a high school education and declining rates for college-educated Black women, ...

Despite modest growth in the number of OB physicians and certified nurse midwives, dozens of North Carolina counties have no clinicians or facilities for care.

Reductions in child mortality have slowed around the world and even stalled in some places, with communities in sub-Saharan ...

Elderly care takes many forms. The costliest is paid long-term care: living at a nursing home or hiring a caretaker at your ...

Listeria is the third-leading cause of death among bacterial foodborne pathogens in the U.S. and pregnant individuals bear a disproportionate share of that burden. Yet the scientific models used to ...

Markita Barnes, once the owner of one of Wisconsin's largest prenatal care companies, was sentenced to just over 10 years in ...

This study, the first of its kind at the Issaka Gazoby maternity hospital in Niamey, highlighted several factors associated ...