Indiana hospital fires doctor, nurse after discharging woman in labor who gave birth roadside minutes later, CEO confirms.

A yearlong probe reveals dozens of pregnant women in jails face horrific conditions with limited medical care. Many are ...

An Indiana woman says a hospital turned her away while she was in active labor and she gave birth in a car less than 10 ...

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as ...

Ala., today joined Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. to reintroduce the NIH IMPROVE Act, which would ensure consistent funding for research on maternal care and mortality. This bill is the Senate companion to ...

Delivering a baby is hard work. Aptly named labor, the process before childbirth can be physically and emotionally taxing — and even painful. While no two patients experience labor and delivery ...

While every soon-to-be parent hopes for a smooth, uneventful pregnancy, labor, and delivery, birth trauma and injury can be ...

That’s what happened for one Black woman, whose video in labor with a laissez-faire intake nurse has gone viral for several reasons. Meanwhile, the nurse has zero sense of urgency in asking her list ...

Early in pregnancy, Molly Ercole already had an idea of what she wanted for her childbirth. "I didn't want to see a different doctor at every appointment," says Ercole, a non-profit ...

A group of South Carolina senators plans to consider a proposal that could introduce the strictest abortion prohibitions and ...

Birth has a way of stripping life down to the essentials. Between contractions and choices, labor can reveal a kind of ...

Kayleigh Summers' labor turned into a nightmare when she coded just before welcoming her son into the world. She tells PEOPLE ...