Bringing a baby into the world is considered one of the miracles the human body can perform. But if your birth was complicated, whether due to a C-section, excessive bleeding, prolonged labour, or ...

Complications from pregnancy and child birth have led to high death rates among people who have given birth in the United States, and a new study using long-range, racially-inclusive data shows that ...

A new comparative review, published in The Anatomical Record, examines factors that may lead to birth complications among ...

Two common, treatable medical conditions—hypertension and iron-deficiency anemia—contribute significantly to racial disparities in childbirth complications, according to a pair of new studies from the ...

Women experiencing severe maternal morbidity (SMM) during their first birth have a 12% lower likelihood of having subsequent births, with cardiac complications and severe mental health conditions ...

A six-year study of nearly 100,000 women in Botswana has provided new evidence that relatively inexpensive daily diet supplementation of iron, folic acid and vitamin supplementation in pregnancy can ...

This blog discusses events in Call the Midwife Season 13 Episode 1. The opinions expressed in this blog post are solely those of the author. In this episode, Sister Julienne is haunted by the specter ...

STANFORD - Two new studies from the Stanford University School of Medicine revealed significant differences between races in rates of birth complications caused by high blood pressure and anemia ...