A coroner has published a damning list of risks that could lead the deaths of women and their newborns across the country, ...

Dr. Heather Skanes opened Alabama’s first freestanding birth center in 2022 in her hometown of Birmingham. Skanes, an OB-GYN, ...

Dr. Janell Green Smith was a midwife and maternal health expert. Still, she couldn't save herself from racial inequities in ...

The Free Birth Society advised pregnant women to avoid doctors and midwives, with deadly consequences. The bigger tragedy is the brutal system the women were so desperate to flee.

Objectives The roles and functions of traditional birth attendants in the community and in relation to the formal healthcare system have to the best of our knowledge, not previously been explored in ...

I was diagnosed with postpartum obsessive-compulsive disorder and psychosis. I’m a neurologist married to a neurosurgeon; I ...

Beaufort Memorial Hospital is making changes to its emergency care procedures after a federal review found the hospital ...

BEAUFORT – Federal regulators cited Beaufort Memorial Hospital in a report that detailed a woman giving birth in its parking lot. Inspectors with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found ...

A pregnant woman in San Francisco gave birth inside a Waymo robotaxi Monday night en route to UCSF Medical Center, marking the latest milestone in the driverless car saga that no one saw coming — ...