Gutting Planned Parenthood's funding while simultaneously choking Medicaid is like setting fire to the only lifeboat in a ...

The United States already has some of the worst health outcomes for mothers and infants in the developed world; it’s only ...

Despite initial assurances in 2023, he dismissed concerns over prenatal care and attributed the delay to Forest Department objections.

The GOP’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” which cleared the Senate Tuesday afternoon and is returning to the House, is generally ...

A s Iowa continues to struggle with a lack of obstetric care in rural areas, MercyOne Des Moines Medical Center has unveiled an emergency response team to reach the far corners of the state to ...

The health implications of those closures for young women, the population most likely to need pregnancy care, and their babies can be significant.

A truck driver was convicted of shooting a pregnant Amish woman to death inside of her rural northwestern Pennsylvania home ...

Durfee noted that future research is needed on telehealth and mobile clinic efficacy for reducing disparities, the role of Medicaid policy changes on prenatal care access, and the experiences of ...

A case of medical negligence emerged at the Bhokardan rural hospital in Jalna district, where a pregnant woman sustained ab.

In Oregon and elsewhere in the country, progressive lawmakers’ attempts to expand abortion access sometimes clash with rural constituencies.

Between 2015 and 2019, rural pregnant women were more likely to use tobacco but less likely to consume alcohol than their urban counterparts, highlighting the need for targeted interventions to ...

A recent study led by Stephanie Durfee, University at Buffalo nursing clinical instructor and PhD student, sheds light on persistent challenges rural populations face in accessing prenatal care, a ...