Our country is experiencing a maternal mortality crisis. Too many women, particularly Black and Hispanic women, are at risk of dying due to complications of pregnancy and childbirth. And with women’s ...

A recent study led by Ph.D. in Epidemiology candidate Marion Granger Howard and published in JAMA Pediatrics compared the ...

MercyOne Birth Centers helped add over 8,500 new residents to Iowa and Illinois in 2025. The Birth Centers welcomed 8,592 babies into the world in 2025, including more than 4,321 girls, 4,271 boys and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sarah Simmons, a midwife and co-owner of Maple Street Birth Center in rural Omak, Wash., is pictured holding a newborn. Sarah ...

If more pregnant women delivered their babies at midwife-led birth centers, the nation’s C-section rate would go down and cost savings would go up, reversing the current twin trend of rising health ...

The steady rise in C-sections from 21 percent of births in 1996 to 32 percent today is a major quality and cost problem. The trend has been associated with a significant increase in serious maternal ...

CARY, N.C. (WTVD) -- The I-Team is looking into how birthing centers and midwives are regulated after a Cary birthing center stopped delivering babies following the deaths of three newborns in the ...

The Connecticut Childbirth & Women’s Center, the only free-standing birthing center in the state since 1997, recently changed hands as national trends show that these types of facilities are growing ...

Women in California today have fewer places to give birth than they did a decade ago. Legislation signed this week by Gov. Gavin Newsom aims to create more options for them by making it easier for ...

Parkview Health is investing $10.8 million and creating more than 75 clinical positions as it expands birthing services at ...

Women in California today have fewer places to give birth than they did a decade ago. Legislation signed this week by Gov. Gavin Newsom aims to create more options for them by making it easier for ...