In Florida, Black women experience disproportionately high rates of maternal and infant mortality — a fact two local ...

A Minnesota researcher joins MPR News host Nina Moini to dig into the findings of a recent study on the decline of obstetric care in all 50 states.

A new Connecticut law requires the state to develop a strategic plan to increase the number of birth centers and birthing ...

Could the United States, which has a maternal mortality rate much higher than other wealthy nations, benefit from MHI’s ...

When she arrived in 2006, up to 30 women might deliver babies daily in a worn-torn hospital with a single midwife.​​ Now, MHI ...

Long before sunrise and well past midnight, the Family Birth Center at St. Michael Medical Center has been a quiet constant ...