In a state where a lack of access to obstetric services has resulted in over half of the counties being labeled "maternity ...
Another rural Arkansas labor and delivery unit closed its labor and delivery unit Friday, leaving pregnant South Arkansans ...
From the outskirts of Zorzor, where expectant mothers were meant to find comfort and lifesaving care, four concrete structures sit quietly along the Fissebu-Voinjama highway. Birds flutter through ...
Janell Green Smith, 31, was determined to reduce racial disparities in maternal health care. Her family hopes her legacy will ...
An MRI confirmed a complete abdominal ectopic pregnancy and that Lopez's uterus was empty. The baby was sitting in the ...
Dr. Janell Green Smith was a midwife and maternal health expert. Still, she couldn't save herself from racial inequities in ...
Hospital labor and delivery units are shuttering across the nation — including more than two dozen in 2025 alone.
Yet, on Jan. 2, she died from childbirth complications. She was only 31 years old. I see her death as a profound failure of ...
In a nation with the highest maternal mortality rate among high-income countries, Dr. Janell Green Smith’s death is a ...
After months of debate over its closure, and a ruling by a state agency in favor of Ascension’s closing it down, the Alexian ...