Ashlen Royce held a small, white candle in her hands and stood quietly as the song “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” played. One ...

Over 80 rural hospitals across the U.S. have closed labor and delivery facilities since 2022, impacting access to maternal care. The bipartisan Rural Obstetrics Readiness Act aims to address this ...

As of Nov. 17, Mayo Clinic Health System will no longer provide on-call labor and delivery coverage at Owatonna Hospital, and ...

In movies and TV, pregnant women always seem to know when it’s time! Suddenly, a woman’s water breaks, and she’s whisked away to the hospital right on her due date, baby delivered according to her ...

The only hospital in a Northern Idaho town of 9,000 people, Bonner General Health, announced last week that it was closing its labor and delivery clinic. The hospital — situated in Sandpoint, a remote ...

After receiving ethics approval from the university and participating hospitals, a pilot study aimed at recruiting 240 women was carried out at six hospitals in the Toronto area (three teaching and ...

A 26-year-old pregnant woman turns to Reddit for advice after her husband becomes upset that his mother won’t be allowed in ...

A midwife is a licensed health care professional who specializes in caring for women throughout all stages of life, including ...

Beginning Nov. 17, Mayo Clinic Health System will no longer provide labor and delivery coverage at Owatonna Hospital.

One study found that agricultural workers had more than 35 times the risk of heat-related deaths than other workers. But ...

In Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare’s labor and delivery unit, the patients aren't the only ones with babies on the way — so were 14 of the unit's nurses who care for them, all at the same time. On the ...