New parents who receive attentive, supportive nursing care during labor and immediately after childbirth are more likely to exclusively breastfeed their newborn when leaving the hospital, finds a ...

Pregnancy is perilous for many American women — and outcomes are trending in the wrong direction. Maternal deaths rose 14% during the first year of COVID-19. 1 And the rate of severe maternal ...

Octavia Treadway’s middle son was a drummer before he was born. “He actually started drumming in the womb,” said Treadway, the co-executive director of You’re Carrying Someone Great, a nonprofit that, ...

This issue of Health Affairs includes the annual national health expenditure projections from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Several articles focus on rural hospitals, including ...

In an unlikely success story in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake, Haiti managed to improve access in the project intervention areas to quality maternal and children health care while ...

A recent study led by Stephanie Durfee, University at Buffalo nursing clinical instructor and PhD student, sheds light on persistent challenges rural populations face in accessing prenatal care, a ...