The pace of job growth cooled through mid-2025, while the unemployment rate rose relatively little. This seeming puzzle is ...

My son, now 47, was born in a period of resistance to standard birth practices, which imposed rigidities that did not promote ...

Janell Green Smith was a certified nurse-midwife and doctor of nursing practice in South Carolina. Less than a week after ...

Dr. Heather Skanes opened Alabama's first freestanding birth center in 2022 in her hometown of Birmingham. Skanes, an OB-GYN, ...

If you're nervous about childbirth, you're not alone. These tips can help you feel calmer about going into labor.

Molecular discoveries may help improve treatments for labor and pain. When labor starts, the uterus must produce steady, ...

Listen to the audio edition here: Collingswood resident Caitlin Corkery is a self-described “birth nerd.” She’d grown up in the ’90s and 2000s, when women’s bodies were relentlessly shamed by tabloids ...

A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, after a video circulated of a Black woman writhing in pain at an Indiana ...

Alena Wells could have entered the world surrounded by her family and medical professionals. Instead, she was born on Nov. 16 in the front seat of a Chevrolet Silverado as her father, Leon Wells, ...

A doctor and nurse who discharged a pregnant woman in active labor from an Indiana hospital just minutes before she said she gave birth in a vehicle on the side of the road have been fired following ...

An Indiana hospital is under fire for turning away a Black woman in active labor who gave birth minutes later inside her car. Social media is on fire in response to a video showing a Black woman in ...