Opioid and stimulant use disorders during pregnancy, along with other demographic factors, are associated with increased odds of health problems for mothers and their babies.

Three years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the constitutional right to abortion care established by Roe v. Wade in ...

Access to obstetric care declined across the US, especially in rural areas, with more than 7 states seeing more than 25% of hospitals lose obstetric services from 2010 to 2022.

Adherence to standard dialysis infection prevention and control (IPC) measures enabled safe provision of dialysis to patients ...

A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association showed that childhood mortality may be significantly ...

A 30-day course of antibiotics after robot-assisted radical cystectomy appears to eliminate UTIs and reduce costs of care.

An ad hoc committee will conduct a review and assessment of the current state of the field and best practices in assessing and quantifying mortality and significant morbidity following large-scale ...

BACKGROUND: Short-term maternal complications of cesarean delivery remain uncertain because of confounding by indication. Our objective was to assess whether cesarean delivery is associated with ...

The rate of severe maternal morbidity increased by 9% for all women between 2018 and 2020. But Hispanic women saw the biggest increase of 19%.