Nurse home visitor Tammy Ballard has had some memorable experiences in close to a decade of helping new mothers raising their children in poverty in Dayton, Ohio. Once, she arrived at a new client’s ...

Nurse home visiting programs have the potential to reduce intimate partner violence exposure and increase outcomes for young, first-time mothers and children experiencing disadvantages, a new Children ...

Children born to low-income, first-time mothers who received home nursing visits showed increased mental health, stronger social and emotional development and academic gains, according to researchers ...

Home nurse visits in the earliest stages of a child’s life can have lasting impacts on their academic readiness and achievement into adulthood, according to new research published in the Journal ...

Franchesca Williams, 28, of Tyler, poses with her three-month-old son Karter Williams at UT Health Northeast Monday Nov. 6, 2017. Williams is a participant of the program Nurse-Family Partnership. The ...

Nurse home visits to disadvantaged mothers can significantly reduce their rates of hypertension and their daughters' likelihood of obesity, finds a new reanalysis of health data by a team led by a UCL ...

Like a lot of parents-to-be, when Zipora and KP Niowong were expecting their first child, they had a lot of questions. But instead of just scouring books and the internet or getting advice from family ...

AURORA, Colo. (August 24, 2021) – A wide-ranging study of prenatal and postnatal nurse intervention for low-income mothers bearing their first children, published in the American Journal of Preventive ...

A proposal by State Sen. George Dungan of Lincoln would expand home visits by nurses for new mothers. (Stock photo by SDI Productions/Getty Images) LINCOLN — Nebraska lawmakers overwhelmingly approved ...