Greetings from hell — that is, the third trimester of my high-risk pregnancy with fraternal twins. Unlike every pregnant person on Instagram who is either waltzing around a meadow, cradling their bump ...

We are seeing yet another example of state-sanctioned violence against the reproductive futures of those deemed outside the national body. When Cecil Elvir-Quinonez was pulled over for speeding on New ...

Rose covers disability and mental health, and she helps write STAT’s daily Morning Rounds newsletter. Confidential tips can be sent to Rose on Signal at rosebroderick.11. “Don’t take Tylenol. Don’t ...

A recent study led by Ph.D. in Epidemiology candidate Marion Granger Howard and published in JAMA Pediatrics compared the health outcomes of planned hospital births vs. planned community births (i.e., ...

Giorgia Guglielmi is a freelance writer in Basel, Switzerland. In 2021, amid the COVID‑19 pandemic, Kristin Wall became pregnant with her second child. Her physician told her that little was known ...

Micalizzi is a maternal-child health researcher and assistant professor of behavioral and social sciences at Brown University School of Public Health. Tobin-Tyler is a lawyer and professor of health ...

The one demographic that’s especially susceptible to COVID-19 hospitalizations but is ineligible for the vaccine? Infants under 6 months old. Their mothers, however, could be the missing link: New ...