maternal health

In a study of macaques, researchers find that a pregnant mother’s exposure to environmental stress affected the growth of the HPA axis, a key player in deciding how organisms cope with stress.

The program supports mothers in the months immediately following birth while addressing racial and ethnic disparities in maternal morbidity.

Anti-abortion advocates want to open more of these transitional housing facilities to meet a growing need. But they also must overcome a traumatic legacy of coerced adoptions in the decades before Roe.

The SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective centers its mission on maternal health with its Birth Justice Care Fund, which provides doula care, maternal mental health therapy and baby supplies.

Black babies are at higher risk of infant mortality than white babies. There are also several factors behind the barriers to prenatal care in Florida.

A Boston hospital gets daily, home blood pressure checks for moms at risk for the pregnancy complication, pre-eclampsia. The effort is a response to alarming rates of Black maternal mortality.

Many of the states that are moving to ban abortion tend to have less access to health care, worse maternal and infant health care outcomes and weaker social supports for children and families.

About a quarter of all pregnancies end in miscarriage. Despite the large number of workers affected, no national laws protect them when they need time off to deal with the loss.

Top Senate and House budget negotiators met Wednesday but did not make public offers on health care spending.

The program would be required to use telehealth to coordinate with prenatal home-visiting programs to provide services and education to pregnant women and to provide training to health care professionals.