In conjunction with the annual Black Maternal Health Week campaign founded by the Black Mamas Matter Alliance, which ended April 18, lawmakers in dozens of states are calling on their colleagues to ...

Despite federal efforts to expand broadband and boost rural healthcare, more than 200 counties still lack reliable internet and access to primary care and mental health providers ...

NBC News sits down with Omari Maynard about the display that lines the halls of Capitol Hill.

The data shows 50 Black mothers died out of every 100,000 live births in the U.S. in 2023. That's compared to about 15 deaths for white women. A number that was previously at 19. Research also shows ...

In the ruins of a health-care system, many medical facilities have become graveyards. Doctors continue to deliver lifesaving care—but they risk their own lives in the process.

MyQueen Dickens, CNM, explains why they’re not doulas, and the extent of midwifery work, from delivery to overall everyday women's health care.

When people ask why Black mothers and babies are dying at higher rates, I want to be really clear: this isn’t just about poverty or education or where you live. It’s about racism—systemic, embedded ...

The former Hospital for the Negro Insane of Maryland was once the state’s most crowded psychiatric institution. Pulling off a ...

Dr. Berger, his therapist who’s played by Judd Hirsch, is friendly and empathetic, but still maintains professional boundaries. When Conrad asks how life can be worth living when it’s so painful, ...

For Dr. Ellen Rucker Sellers, giving birth to her newborns quickly transformed into a near-fatal event after losing ...

Dr. Paul DeMarco was inspired by photo essay, "Country Doctor," that documented work of Ernest Ceriani, the sole physician ...

In California, Black women are at least three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes.