Birthing has long cost rural hospitals more than it’s earned them. The move does not change that for Northwestern but aims to save the hospital more than its costly hold-over.

Community event highlights Black maternal health disparities as lawmakers push for policy changes ...

Gavin Fraser is a graduate research assistant at Boston University School of Social Work. I dreamed of having children from a young age — so much so that I assumed I had to be a cisgender woman.

Our country is experiencing a maternal mortality crisis. Too many women, particularly Black and Hispanic women, are at risk of dying due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth. And with women’s ...

When I got pregnant for the first time, I followed every piece of my doctor's advice to a T. I took prenatal vitamins religiously, avoided every food and activity that carried even the slightest risk, ...

Newport Hospital is owned by Brown University Health, which has faced mounting financial pressure tied to its $175 million ...

Tressa Hale is frustrated, even a little desperate as she and her husband walk out of the low, gray stucco medical building into the warm night air. It is 10 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6. They have been in and ...

PROVIDENCE – The fight for the Noreen Stonor Drexel Birthing Center at Newport Hospital has reached the Rhode Island State ...

The Mercy Health-West Hospital will stop delivering babies soon. But what does that mean for expectant parents in the Cincinnati area's West Side? Bon Secours Mercy Health is shutting down its ...

A lawsuit headed to the Alabama Supreme Court argues health regulators exceeded their authority with strict new rules.

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An online debate sparked by Missouri Democratic Congresswoman Cori Bush calling women "birthing people" has raged on into ...