Janell Green Smith, 31, was determined to reduce racial disparities in maternal health care. Her family hopes her legacy will ...

Janell Green Smith was a certified nurse-midwife and doctor of nursing practice in South Carolina. Less than a week after ...

A new report shows that nearly 6 million women in the United States live in counties without maternity care at their local ...

The number of babies delivered at Wigan Infirmary has fallen by more than a tenth over the last decade, new figures show.

The low birth rate is one of the greatest headaches for Beijing, which in just 10 years has moved from strict family-planning ...

A routine evening turned into a life-saving mission when a frantic father-to-be rushed into a hospital asking for help days ...

Lorraine Kelly has paid tribute to her father after he died following a fall on an icy path in freezing conditions. John ...

Senior medical experts have urged pregnant women to avoid constant exposure to petrol fumes, warning that it could lead to childhood leukaemia, preterm delivery, low birth weight, and developmental ...

Drinking alcoholic beverages during pregnancy can trigger more or less severe neurodevelopmental and growth disorders. Recent ...

Just a few days before Christmas, a nurse assigned to the 130th Airlift Wing, West Virginia Air National Guard, delivered a ...

The U.S. is cutting the Hepatitis B vaccine from its recommended list. But here's a place where the medical establishment — ...