When director Elaine Epstein and her wife decided to have their first child, the entire process felt wrong. “We went into it blindly, we followed all the prescribed medical routes for a gay couple to ...

Expanding access to nurse-midwifery services could improve maternal health outcomes by providing culturally sensitive, community-based care, particularly in underserved communities around the U.S.

It’s 5 a.m. at Mother Health International (MHI), a birth center in Northern Uganda affiliated with Yale University , when the call comes in from a local midwife about 12 miles away. A woman in her ...