According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Black women in the United States are approximately three ...

The program, called TeamBirth, will have doctors and nurses huddle at the patient’s bedside to discuss next steps and options ...

A certified nurse-midwife at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, Germany, examines a patient during labor. (John Ciccarelli/Landstuhl Regional Medical Center) The largest U.S. Department of Defense ...

KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — The ongoing conflict in the Middle East is squeezing some expectant mothers in the Kaiserslautern Military Community and beyond out of the labor and delivery ward at the ...

Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery the ...

A Florida labor and delivery nurse lost her job after posting a TikTok in which she wished a brutal childbirth injury on White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is pregnant. The clip ...

PATTEN, Maine — In the early hours of the morning on June 1, 2025, Katie Gowell went into labor at her home in Patten, a town on the outskirts of Maine’s northern wilderness containing Mount Katahdin, ...

Lexie Lawler was terminated after widespread backlash to her video, in which she wished a "fourth-degree tear" upon Leavitt Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Lexie Lawler was fired from a Florida hospital ...

A Florida hospital has terminated a labor and delivery nurse who wished a severe childbirth injury on pregnant White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in an expletive-filled TikTok. The nurse, ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story has been updated to correct the number of nurses employed by the department. SWEETWATER, Tenn. (WATE) — All 14 nurses employed by the Sweetwater Hospital Association (SHA) ...

SWEETWATER, Tenn. (WATE) — The Sweetwater Hospital Association on Thursday announced plans to close its Labor and Delivery Department. Patients currently receiving prenatal care will be transferred to ...