Upon retiring from the WHO in 1997, Edna Adan invested her personal savings and pension to construct a maternity hospital in Hargeisa on land previously used as a municipal landfill. When the Edna ...

In 2012, the world was first introduced to the series that would become a sensation, Call the Midwife. The show gave a ...

Helen George and Laura Main are unanimous: they won’t miss Call the Midwife. At least not yet. “We’ve all been saying that we’ll feel it most in April because that’s when we usually start filming,” ...

Call the Midwife appears to have confirmed fans' deepest fears — Sister Monica Joan is facing the end of her life as her health continues to deteriorate at an alarming rate. The beloved nun, portrayed ...

Good news Call the Midwife fans: season 16 is very much on the horizon. The beloved show, which is adapted from the memoirs of Jennifer Worth, follows a group of nurse midwifes through changing eras ...

Long before hospitals were accessible to many Black families in Maryland, grand midwives were delivering babies, supporting mothers and sustaining entire communities. During segregation, when Black ...

Amid a rise in home births, mistrust between midwives and hospitals can put mothers and babies at risk. With each contraction, Maria Ibarra’s plan to deliver her daughter in her Ohio living room ...

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set in the mountains above Los Angeles with views of the Pacific Ocean, a preserved home designed by famed Southern California architect Richard Neutra is back on the market. It also comes with a new ...

The death of a Black midwife following complications from giving birth has renewed difficult questions surrounding inequities in Black maternal health care. Black women are still three times more ...

When Janell Green Smith first announced her pregnancy this past summer, her family was ecstatic. After participating in more than 300 births as a certified nurse-midwife and doctor of nursing practice ...

Midwives in the Upstate are mourning the loss of Dr. Janell Green Smith, a respected midwife, scholar, and advocate for maternal health.According to the American College of Nurse-Midwives, Dr. Smith ...