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

According to new data, Harris County, Texas has the highest Black maternal mortality rates, nearly double the national ...

Tiana Lashae created the “Black Birth Joy” project in 2024 to amplify positive Black maternal health stories through ...

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 ...

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

Janell Green Smith, 31, was determined to reduce racial disparities in maternal health care. Her family hopes her legacy will ...

DENVER — Preterm birth, or birth before 37 weeks' gestation, can in some cases be linked to the mother’s exposure to adverse childhood experiences, or ACE’s, according to research presented during the ...

The CDC examined the effects of maternal age on the decline of preterm birth in the United States between 2007 and 2014. Rates of preterm births and births in teenagers have decreased in the United ...

“The Alabama Birth Equity Initiative is a Black-women-led, community-driven effort to build the kind of maternal health ...

Maternal gut–immune stress shapes fetal brain development differently in males and females, revealing sex-specific pathways ...

The work conducted by Green Smith was praised over the years by industry leaders such as the American College of Nurse-Midwives who her loss as "the persistent and well-documented reality that Black ...