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New law allows low-income pregnant women to receive prenatal care earlier
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 40 minutes 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· 20 hours 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· 4 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· 1 day 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...
Access to health care limited in South Dakota's rural and reservation areas
Gannett via AOL· 9 hours agoIn South Dakota overall, Native American infant mortality (17.2 deaths per 1,000 births) is three...
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...
Fewer Maine babies are being born with substance exposure. No one's sure why
Portland Press Herald, Maine via Yahoo News· 17 hours 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 ...
Tennessee's G.I.F.T.S. program aims to help pregnant women quit smoking - WBBJ TV
WBBJ TV· 4 days agoTennessee’s G.I.F.T.S. program, also known as “Growing Inside, Free of Tobacco and Smoking” provides...
Sisters in Kenya shelter infants born of incest and high maternal mortality
National Catholic Reporter· 17 hours agoIt's 8 o'clock in the morning, and Sr. Judith Auma sits in one of the dormitories at St. Josephine...
With a heat wave in the weather forecast, here's how NYC officials want you to prepare
CBS News· 8 hours agoNew York City officials are preparing for an expected heat wave starting Tuesday and lasting through...