Janell Green Smith was a certified nurse-midwife and doctor of nursing practice in South Carolina. Less than a week after ...

The death of a Black midwife following complications from giving birth has renewed difficult questions surrounding inequities ...

Dr. Janell Green Smith, a respected midwife and maternal health expert, tragically died in childbirth at the age of 31, highlighting the issue of America's maternal mortality crisis and the need for ...

The hospital failed to identify the patient as at-risk for a serious blot clot condition before discharging her, state ...

A new World Health Organization report found that maternal mortality rates have either increased or remained the same in nearly all regions of the world in the past five years. "In 2020, we estimate ...

Members of the Charleston community gathered Wednesday night to honor a woman who spent her life working to prevent maternal ...

Yet, on Jan. 2, she died from childbirth complications. She was only 31 years old. I see her death as a profound failure of ...

Access to birth control prevents thousands of deaths in pregnancy and childbirth every year, a new global analysis has found. Globally, maternal deaths – pregnancy-related deaths during pregnancy, ...

Four out of five pregnancy-related deaths in the United States are preventable, according to new figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report looked at data from the ...

Preventable pregnancy-related deaths rose and stark racial disparities remained in the Illinois Department of Public Health’s most recent maternal mortality report. The report studied 219 deaths that ...