Despite the challenges, she said the need is dire in South Carolina, where the preterm birth rate is 11.6%, earning the state ...

In 2024, Texas increased supplemental payments for rural hospitals from $500 to $1,500 per birth, bringing the total compensation per Medicaid birth to $8,100. (For comparison, employer-sponsored ...

A Summerville nurse practitioner is turning a preventable tragedy into a mission to save newborn lives across the Lowcountry ...

Pregnant farmworkers, particularly low-income Latino immigrants, face severe health risks from rising temperatures driven by ...

Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown has specialized care that helped protect preterm twins, Jordyn and Jasmyn White.

It’s Black Maternal Health Week. Here’s everything you should know to protect yourself and those you love. In 2018, Rachell Dumas cried tears of joy after seeing a positive pregnancy test. She was ...

An Oklahoma family welcomed twin girls into the world on Mother’s Day this year but not in the way they expected. “They were ready to come out,” said Steffany Decker, the twins’ mother. After going ...

The Hawaii Supreme Court ruled 5-0 Friday that an arbitration clause in its contract between physicians and Hawaii Medical Service Association, the state’s largest health care insurer, is enforceable.

Newark Liberty International Airport faced more ground stops Monday afternoon. The Federal Aviation Administration briefly issued a ground stop around 2 p.m. that was quickly lifted. Another was ...

Krysten Alvarez was seven and a half months pregnant with her first child when she fell down the stairs, breaking four bones in her foot. Hours later, her baby boy was delivered via an emergency ...