Victoria Gray spent 34 years battling the debilitating pain of sickle cell disease. Then she volunteered to be the world's first "prototype" for a CRISPR therapy, based on technology invented at UC ...

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

A 28-year-old woman opens up about experiencing a cryptic pregnancy and welcoming a baby after going to the hospital for ...

Inside Gaza’s maternity crisis - Mothers have been left without maternity care and report breast milk drying up thanks to ...

In a nation with the highest maternal mortality rate among high-income countries, Dr. Janell Green Smith’s death is a ...

Because the hospital’s maternity ward had recently closed and the delivery was imminent, there was no time to transfer her.

In 2020, a woman failed to take her five-year-old daughter to see a doctor for six days before the girl died in her bedroom ...

A woman experiencing stomach pain on Christmas ended up giving birth on the holiday, carrying the baby to full term without ...

Melanie Smith from Zion, Illinois gave birth to a health baby boy on Christmas Day, despite having no idea she was pregnant.

Two pregnant Black women were denied adequate medical care at Indiana and Texas hospitals, respectively, highlighting the ...

Green Smith was known for her Black maternal health advocacy and midwife care as Black women are three times more likely to ...

Life has ups and downs. Pain is a natural part of being alive. Hard experiences often make us wiser, more compassionate, and ...