Native American pregnancy-related deaths: They want a voice to stop the trend
Just hours after Rhonda Swaney left a prenatal appointment for her first pregnancy, she felt severe pain in her stomach and started vomiting.
Jan 20, 2026
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Investigative Techniques: News and Research on Maternal Mortality
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Doulas play essential roles in reproductive health care, and more states are beginning to recognize it
A growing share of Americans, especially in rural areas, are losing access to reproductive health care. At the same time, American women are dying during or after pregnancy at higher rates than in any other high-income country.
Dec 10, 2025
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Coroners' advice to prevent future maternal deaths ignored, say researchers
A study, authored by Dr. Georgia Richards, founder of the Preventable Deaths Tracker at King's and published in Gynecology and Obstetrics Clinical Medicine, finds coroners' concerns are being ignored despite raising repeated ...
Nov 19, 2025
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Home visits are helping new moms get health care, support, and diapers in the weeks after they give birth
When Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital began offering new mothers who gave birth there a follow-up visit with a nurse at home, Ebony Durant worried that the idea would be a hard sell for patients.
Nov 18, 2025
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Research finds persistent racial disparities in cesarean births
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University's Center for Women's Health have identified recent national trends in cesarean births, noting significant racial and ethnic disparities.
Nov 18, 2025
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Science for living: Addressing the growing OB/GYN shortage and maternity care crisis
The United States continues to face a growing maternal health crisis. Despite being one of the most resource-rich nations in the world, America has the highest maternal mortality rate among wealthy countries and it's worsening. ...
Oct 23, 2025
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New method could catch more women at risk of dangerous blood loss during childbirth
A new way of diagnosing heavy bleeding after birth (postpartum hemorrhage or PPH) is more effective at identifying women in need of treatment than the current diagnostic method, suggests a meta-analysis published in The Lancet.
Oct 6, 2025
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With CDC in chaos, scientists and physicians piece together replacements for agency's lost work
The CDC is in chaos and some groups are starting to step in and take over work the agency was doing.
Aug 29, 2025
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Access to vaginal labor after C-section is limited to some 16% of US counties
Only 16% of all counties in the U.S. offered pregnant people the opportunity to attempt labor after a previous cesarean section between 2016 and 2021, according to University of Massachusetts Amherst research that provides ...
Aug 26, 2025
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A brain-dead pregnant woman was kept alive in Georgia: It's unclear if state law required it
A Georgia woman declared brain-dead and kept on life support for more than three months because she was pregnant was removed from a ventilator in June and died, days after doctors delivered her 1-pound, 13-ounce baby by emergency ...
Aug 4, 2025
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