Alabama authorities are investigating a murder-suicide that unfolded inside a medical center and involved a married couple ...

The single most impactful way legislators can improve access to dental care in Florida is to allow the market to determine the number and types of providers. Yet maximizing access requires ensuring ...

Discover how American dentistry evolved from unregulated practice to the founding of the world’s first dental school in 1840, ...

As a demographer who studies American childbearing decision-making and behaviors, I’m increasingly being pulled into the near-constant discourse on how to raise birth rates, spurred by the record low ...

STANFORD, Ky. (WKYT) - Expecting mothers are facing the loss of their local birthing center as Ephraim McDowell Health moves to consolidate services. The Danville-based health system announced the ...

Graciela Benavides had planned to be in law school by now. But she got pregnant when she was 16 and has to focus on caring and providing for her now 5-year-old daughter. As Tatiana quietly played ...

“Birth tourism” — where pregnant women have their child on America soil to become citizens — has been happening for decades. But Chinese elites have “weaponized” the practice, says author Peter ...

Plans to open an independent birth center in Germantown come on the heels of the Lifecycle Wellness and Birth Center closure in Bryn Mawr. Certified nurse midwife Autumn Nelson, clinical director at ...

Taking good care of your teeth and gums is important for all of us, but certainly so during pregnancy. The CDC says good oral health during pregnancy and infancy is important to set children up for a ...

It was with an eerie sense of repetition that I read Jennifer Block’s Jan. 4 Ideas piece about hospital births and alternatives (“What makes DIY births seem like a good idea”). My son, now 47, was ...