Mass General emergency medicine director Dr. Ali Raja explains a study that found a high mortality rate amongst women months after giving birth.

Clinicians need to address maternal health at all stages, with some seeing a possible new role for GLP-1 drugs.

Cori Broadus didn’t have the expected start to motherhood, but she’s adjusting gracefully. The 25-year-old’s daughter entered the world three months early and opened up about the experience during an ...

Complications during pregnancy (or adverse pregnancy outcomes), like gestational diabetes and newly developed high blood pressure, act as nature's stress test and may uncover an individual's risk for ...

Over the course of the pregnancy, Elizabeth and Joshua read, sang and talked to their baby in the womb. They took Joshy to a ...

Gestational diabetes and hypertensive disorders of pregnancy mediated only a small part of the association between women’s ...

Complications during pregnancy (or adverse pregnancy outcomes), like gestational diabetes and newly developed high blood ...

The American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology now states that there is no need to discontinue safe blood pressure ...

Black Maternal Health Week runs through April 17th, and according to the American Heart Association, heart disease is the ...

Seventy percent of Americans are currently overweight or obese, and that's a strong risk factor for developing many of the cardiovascular risk factors, things like high blood pressure and diabetes and ...

The birth of a child is typically the happiest day in a parent's life. But for a Minneapolis family, it started a mother's ...

Matthew Okula is looking to raise awareness of a rare birthing complication, amniotic fluid embolism, that caused the death ...