LILONGWE-(MaraviPost)–In a bid to close Malawi’s longstanding identity documentation gap and strengthen national planning, the National Registration Bureau (NRB) has officially launched a nationwide ...

Jan. 5—Dr. Heather Skanes opened Alabama's first freestanding birth center in 2022 in her hometown of Birmingham. Skanes, an OB-GYN, wanted to improve access to maternal health care in a state that's ...

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 ...

Hospital labor and delivery units are shuttering across the nation — including more than two dozen in 2025 alone. Freestanding birth centers like Skanes' could help fill the gaps, but they too are ...

The couple, who share three children together, wed in December 2010 Nicholas Rice is a Senior News Editor, Weekends for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as an Editorial Intern in early ...

“I can’t be left alone with her.” The words escaped my lips as a half-whisper, half-scream. My physician husband startled awake, expecting a call from the hospital, not the emergency lying beside him.

Person-centered contraceptive counseling (PCCC) was received by only one third of adolescents aged 15-19 years compared with nearly half of adults aged ≥ 25 years, yet adolescents who received PCCC ...

Chris Hemsworth assembled his family for the ultimate holiday vacation. The Thor actor, 42, traveled to Tavarua Island in Fiji with wife Elsa Pataky, 49, and their kids India Rose, 13, and 11-year-old ...

Leseliey Welch and Indra Lusero, parents and birth justice advocates, are helping to lead a movement to create community birth centers across the nation. To help address the maternal and infant ...

Mercyhealth’s Javon Bea Hospital–Riverside has been honored with the Illinois Birthing Hospital Quality Star Award by the Illinois Perinatal Quality Collaborative (ILPQC), according to a community ...