Louisiana has long struggled with maternal and infant mortality. In New Orleans, free home visits by nurses help spot medical ...

Leaders of the D.S.M., the world’s most influential psychiatric manual, have been split for more than five years over whether ...

One of the most underestimated health risks for expectant mothers is seasonal influenza, or Flu. “A woman’s body responds ...

A folk singer has said she wants to raise awareness of pre-eclampsia after the condition left her and her baby fighting for ...

Roughly 1% of the more than 53,000 Missourians who received abortions over the last 10 years in Illinois and Kansas ...

Women’s cardiovascular health has long been overlooked and understudied. Here are some things to keep in mind.

Despite decades of iron supplementation programmes, the iron deficiency continues to affect nearly one in two women of ...

When their mother, Kailee Pederson, was 15 weeks pregnant, the identical twins were diagnosed with a rare condition called Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome (TTTS). TTTS happens when the twins share a ...

The most common health risk affecting pregnant women in the Philippines is the lack of proper nutritional support, which ...

After a pregnancy filled with complications that led to a bout with sepsis following a C-section delivery in late November, ...

That matters because while gestational diabetes ends when pregnancy does, its effects may not. The condition can increase the risk of a host of complications, such as preeclampsia, and significantly ...

Findings indicate that higher minimum wages are linked to reduced maternal hypertensive disorders, emphasizing the impact of ...