Traditional Birth Attendants (TBAs) have long served as primary caregivers for pregnant women in many parts of Lagos. Their popularity stems from cultural familiarity, accessibility, and community ...

Fear of immigration enforcement is keeping pregnant women from prenatal care. Doctors warn the consequences could be ...

Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) is a clinically significant cause of infertility that affects between 1 to 3% of women of childbearing age ...

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released two new tools for use in healthcare facilities, the Sepsis Prevention Assessment Tool for Nursing Homes (SPAT) and the Targeted Assessment for ...

Chatham County’s family physician-led maternity unit offers a possible blueprint for filling maternity care gaps.

A new Gerontological Society of America (GSA) report summarizes survey findings on the readiness of the primary care workforce to adopt digital cognitive assessments (DCAs) for use in the diagnostic ...

In the final days of 2025, the state of Maine was notified that it had received a $190 million award through the first year of the federal Rural Health Transformation ...

A machine-learning model developed by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators may provide clinicians with an early warning of a complication that can occur late in pregnancy. Preeclampsia is a sudden ...

The country has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world. Isata Dumbuya, a nurse and midwife, has made it her mission to change that.

One of Sierra Roman’s first cases as an emergency room nurse at Kittanning Hospital — and one she’ll never forget — involved a victim of a sexual assault. Roman, who started at the hospital in August ...

Traditional birth attendants (TBAs) remain a major source of maternity care in some Lagos communities, especially where women prioritise familiarity, proximity, flexible payment, and emotional support ...