For low-risk pregnancies, midwife care can offer mothers the birth resources they need: patience, attention, and time.

The reality of death became personal. In the stories we tell and the legacies we bequeath, birth and death are always ...

Introduction Glucose is a major determinant of fetal growth, but its relative contribution in different ethnic groups or populations is not fully understood. The Hyperglycaemia and Adverse Pregnancy ...

As a demographer who studies American childbearing decision-making and behaviors, I’m increasingly being pulled into the near-constant discourse on how to raise birth rates, spurred by the record low ...

A teenage girl sits across from her father at the kitchen table, explaining that she has chosen a new name linked to archangel lore and that her transition is not about anyone else’s expectations.

Blockchain is a promise—an opportunity to restore faith in every transaction, every product, and every purchase.

"I planned a quiet conversation, but when he sat down, I blurted, 'Did you fake the vasectomy?'" ...

Geologist John Compton invites us to see the mountain not as a postcard peak, but as an ancient, ongoing process that can recalibrate how we think about time. He also wants Capetonians who live under ...

Introduction Implementing shared decision-making (SDM) in maternity care remains challenging in low-income and middle-income ...

The House Judiciary Committee considered bills on restricting bathroom use based on sex assigned at birth, and a bill to ...

Background Metabolic dysfunction associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), the most common chronic liver disease globally, may originate early in life. While maternal obesity is linked to offspring ...