prenatal care

Pregnant people struggling with addiction fear mistreatment from health care providers and worry about the possibility that they’ll lose custody of their baby.

New mom Briante Melton of Indianapolis met her best friend at her lowest moment.“I just felt kind of like hopeless,” she said. “Like I was going to feel…

A bipartisan group of legislators and advocates are urging passage of a bill that would allow all pregnant women in Connecticut access to insurance…

Mosquitoes bearing Zika — a virus that can cause birth defects when contracted by pregnant women — are expected to reach the United States as soon as this…

LOS ANGELES — The women sat in a circle and bemoaned their sleepless nights. It seemed unfair: Their babies weren’t even born yet.Mayra Del Real’s…

There is a seven-county stretch in North Central Florida –an area larger than Puerto Rico –where over the past two years every county health department…

Indiana is focusing resources on some of the state’s most vulnerable communities to address a major health inequity. Earlier this month, Governor Mike…