-
Alisha Floyd bounces her son Chance on her lap. He giggles and pulls her hair.“He’s the fattest baby here,” she says, laughing.Chance is 4 months old, and…
-
MILFORD, Del. – When the only hospital in this southern Delaware town saw two of its four obstetricians move away, it knew it had to do something to…
-
Which hospital parents pick to deliver their baby can have serious cost consequences, according to a new study.Hospital costs for women who had no…
-
If parents don't have a name teed up, hospitals often give babies temporary ones, like Babygirl. But those generic names can be dangerously confusing, especially in the neonatal intensive care unit.
-
The British medical system says healthy women with normal pregnancies should give birth at home or in a midwife-led facility. But 99 percent of babies in the U.S. are born in hospitals.
-
A growing number of babies are going through detox in their first few days of life. The rate of admissions to neonatal ICUs for symptoms of drug…
-
People living just a few miles from each other in American cities can have radically different chances of living a long healthy life.
-
Indiana is focusing resources on some of the state’s most vulnerable communities to address a major health inequity. Earlier this month, Governor Mike…