A new test for pre-eclampsia - a condition that affects pregnant women - has been announced by the Welsh government. The condition can be fatal if left untreated and affects up to 6% of pregnancies in ...

In recent months, mothers who nearly died in the hours and days after giving birth have repeatedly told ProPublica and NPR that their doctors and nurses were often slow to recognize the warning signs ...

Battling racism is the Rx for safer and healthier moms and babies, educator says. Disproportionately high mortality rates for black women aren’t caused by genetics, says an expert in healthcare ...

Excessive growth of a baby in the womb, a common complication of gestational diabetes, begins weeks before women are tested for the disease, according to researchers in South Korea. As a result, they ...

Penn Medicine assistant professor Rebecca Clark was appointed to the Pennsylvania Department of Health’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee on September 19 (Photo from Penn Nursing). Penn School of ...