A small but growing number of pregnant women are choosing to give birth without any assistance from a midwife or doctor, trusting instead in influencers’ tales of the “euphoria” of a “free birth”. A ...

Hannah Dahlen has worked as a private midwife in the past and attended homebirths. Hannah has received funding from the NHMRC to study the safety of place of birth. If you’re looking on social media ...

Alena Wells could have entered the world surrounded by her family and medical professionals. Instead, she was born on Nov. 16 in the front seat of a Chevrolet Silverado as her father, Leon Wells, ...

This article is part of The Dallas Morning News’ initiative to answer questions about vaccines. Got a question? Ask us here. A federal vaccine advisory panel voted on Friday morning to change the ...

UMBRELLA IN MY FULL FORECAST. THANK YOU MARY ELLEN. TODAY, HUNDREDS OF NONPROFITS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT SERVE THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY ARE ASKING FOR YOUR DONATIONS AS PART OF THE LARGEST SINGLE DAY ...

A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, after a video circulated of a Black woman writhing in pain at an Indiana ...

This Giving Tuesday, celebrated on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, matters more than you know. As America gets ready for our 250th birthday in 2026, the country feels like it’s in crisis. Yet people ...

The state of charitable giving in America is strong and growing on Giving Tuesday this year. “States with larger economies dominate in total charitable giving, while per-capita leaders are shaped by ...

Earlier this month, Mercedes Wells was ready to give birth at Franciscan Health Hospital in Crown Point, Indiana, when staff turned her away, saying that she would have to come back later because she ...

CROWN POINT, Ind. (WGN) — Just a week after a Chicago mother gave birth along the roadside following a premature discharge from the hospital, the facility where she sought help has fired the medical ...

Two Black women said they were denied immediate medical attention despite being minutes away from giving birth. The incidents, which happened days apart in different states, highlight long-standing ...