Maternal Health in the U.S. News

• Maternal deaths in childbirth rise in the U.S.

  The Washington Post | May 2014

• Saving the world's babies simply starts before birth

  NPR | May 2014

• Tennessee will criminalize moms who use drugs during pregnancy

  USA Today | April 2014

• Data murky on fertility rates

  The New York Times | April 2014

• Infertility, endured through a prism of race

  The New York Times | April 2014

• Refusals cut options after c-sections

  The New York Times | April 2014

• Surge in prescriptions for opioid painkillers for pregnant women

  The New York Times | April 2014

• Hospitals safer than homes for births

  The New York Times | April 2014

• Panel urges low-dose aspirin to reduce preeclampsia risk

  The New York Times | April 2014

• Don't birth that baby in a tub, doctors say, but midwives disagree

  NPR | March 2014

• Why are American women dying in childbirth?

  Aljazeera | March 2014

• The toxins that threaten our brains

  The Atlantic | March 2014

• Reducing early elective deliveries

  The New York Times | March 2014

• A call for universal access to safe, legal abortion

  Inter Press Service | March 2014

• Doctors urge patience, and longer labor, to reduce c-sections

  NPR | February 2014

• The lore of labor

  The New York Times | February 2014

• For pregnant women, 'fetal rights' mean two sets of rights in one body

  The Boston Globe | February 2014

• Women at higher risk of blood clots for 12 weeks after pregnancy

  Time | February 2014

• High-risk pregnancies focus of society for maternal-fetal medicine

  Medpage Today | February 2014

• Chagas disease: Urgent measures are needed

  Huffington Post | January 2014

• U.S. maternal death data held up by nine states

  Women's eNews | January 2014

• Reducing maternal mortality in U.S., India & worldwide through knowledge sharing from the frontlines

  Impatient Optimists | January 2014

• DHEC wants to reduce pregnancy-associated deaths

  Associated Press | December 2013

• Ethiopian women pay high price for US aid abortion restrictions

  The Guardian | December 2013

• Two events on U.S. maternity care suggest a trend

  Women's eNews | December 2013

• Popping a baby out like a cork, and other birth innovations

  NPR | November 2013

• In pregnancy, what's worse? Cigarettes or the nicotine patch?

  NPR | November 2013

• Baltimore sees increase in maternal mortality; officials work to reverse trend

  WJZ Baltimore | November 2013

• Infant mortality rates tick up for second year

  North Caroline Health News | November 2013

• Car mechanic dreams up a tool to ease births

  The New York Times | November 2013