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Health & Wellness
Study: Plastics Pose ‘Urgent Threat’ to Children’s Lifelong Health
Sep 30, 2025 Scientists say chemicals in everything from food packaging to bath products cause lasting health damage and call for urgent global action.
Health & Wellness
Pregnant People in Rural America Are Running Out of Places To Give Birth
Aug 7, 2025 Some doctors worry that cuts to Medicaid will require patients to drive hundreds of miles for prenatal care and delivery services.
Health & Wellness
We Can’t Ignore America’s Maternal Health Crisis
Jun 26, 2025 Several state maternal mortality review committees have had lapses in their reporting of pregnancy-related death data.
Race
Why Is the American Health Care System Failing Pregnant Black Women?
Dec 27, 2022 They are twice as likely as white women to have a stillbirth and three times as likely to die in childbirth.
Why Was a Mother Charged Nearly $1 Million for a Premature Birth?
Nov 4, 2019 Dignity Health abruptly reverses course after first denying coverage to an employee's newborn daughter under dubious circumstances.U.S. Pregnancy Deaths Are Up, Especially Among Minorities
May 7, 2019 "An American mom today is 50% more likely to die in childbirth than her own mother was," says a Harvard Medical School obstetrician.
A Surrogate Mother’s Cautionary Tale
Mar 6, 2019 Defenders of the practice of surrogacy contend that everyone benefits from it, but that’s not always the case.
Proposed Funding for Women’s Health Would Lead to ‘Contraception Deserts’
Oct 4, 2018 The Trump administration wants to limit access to birth control for low-income women.
Midwives are Caught in a Culture War Deeply Rooted in Race and Class (Video)
Jun 6, 2018 What makes maternal health care in other affluent countries look so different from that of the U.S.? Among other things, midwives.
‘Tully’ Delivers a Welcome Postpartum Digression
May 2, 2018 Charlize Theron, Mackenzie Davis sparkle in this satire on the outsourcing of parenthood.
