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New law allows low-income pregnant women to receive prenatal care earlier
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 19 hours agoLow-income pregnant women can access timely prenatal care regardless of their Medicaid application status thanks to legislation passed by lawmakers this year. The change brings ...
Whooping Cough: Kent councils urge pregnant mums to get vaccination
BBC News· 2 days agoPregnant women are being advised to get vaccinated against whooping cough after a rise in reported...
Kent murder suspect acting as own attorney in trial
Gannett via AOL· 22 hours agoAn Arizona man will go on trial this week on charges he shot a pregnant woman last November in Kent. The trail of Dawan Rahman...Cheretta Frierson dead ...
Pregnant, Addicted and Fighting the Pull of Drugs
New York Times· 2 days agoThis was Kim’s second pregnancy with the Great Moms clinic at the Corewell Health Medical Center in Grand Rapids, Mich., one of the rare programs for a...
Ohio House passed bills OKing feral pig open season and another to help pregnant women, babies
Ohio Capital Journal via Yahoo News· 4 days agoState Reps. Andrea White, R-Kettering, and Latyna Humphrey, D-Columbus, introduced House Bill 7 last...
Access to health care limited in South Dakota's rural and reservation areas
Gannett via AOL· 1 day agoIn South Dakota overall, Native American infant mortality (17.2 deaths per 1,000 births) is three...
Tennessee's G.I.F.T.S. program aims to help pregnant women quit smoking - WBBJ TV
WBBJ TV· 5 days agoTennessee’s G.I.F.T.S. program, also known as “Growing Inside, Free of Tobacco and Smoking” provides...
Heat wave: What to know when extreme hot weather is forecasted
Gannett via AOL· 7 hours agoPeople with chronic medical conditions are more likely to have serious health problems during a heat...
Fewer Maine babies are being born with substance exposure. No one's sure why
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 1 day agoJun. 17—The number of substance-exposed babies in Maine has fallen to its lowest levels in more than a decade, declining from a high of 9.3% of all babies born in 2016 to 6.6% in 2023, according ...
Preterm birth rate
St. Joseph News-Press· 6 days agoPreterm birth rates vary significantly along racial and ethnic lines, as... American women. By contrast, the rate was 9.1% among white women and 9.8%...