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The program will offer monthly cash payments to pregnant women living in certain Philadelphia communities for 18 months

Maternal death rates are 62 per cent higher in states with restrictions, newly published research finds

BALTIMORE — Nine women, some mothers, some expecting, sit chattering at a U-shaped table in a church hall on an October morning, happy to be out of the downpour outside. A few have young children underfoot. Guadalupe Franco, a community health worker, once as hungry for good parenting tips as…

Neonatal Mortality Rate and Infant Mortality Rate have also fallen by two points each in Karnataka

Some proponents of abortion bans and restrictions say they are concerned about “supporting not just life,” but what they call “quality of life worth living,” saying they want to promote laws and policies that help families. Three authors from Brigham Young University, for instance, have noted that the overturning of…

If you made it past early childhood, your chances got better to see your golden years

Every year I ask the college students in the course I teach about the 14th-century Black Death to imagine they are farmers or nuns or nobles in the Middle Ages. What would their lives have been like in the face of this terrifying disease that killed millions of people in…

A series of reports has painted a grim picture of the challenges faced by children growing up in the borough

He appeals to medical fraternity to join hands with government in this endeavor