Midwives, doulas could benefit births — but not all women have access

Nandi Hill rushed to Emily Rose’s home at the crack of dawn.


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2016 Election Linked to Increase in Preterm Births Among U.S. Latina

A significant jump in preterm births to Latina mothers living in the U.S. occurred in the nine months following the November 8, 2016 election of President Donald Trump, according to a study led by a researcher at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Premature Births Cost Health Plans $6 Billion Annually

Newswise imageA new study estimates employer-sponsored health plans spent at least $ 6 billion extra on infants born prematurely in 2013 and a substantial portion of that sum was spent on infants with major birth defects.
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Legionnaire’s cases among newborns raise questions about water births


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