A study published in JAMA in early December that examined nearly 5,000 acute care hospitals found that by 2022, 52% of rural ...

A legislative effort to expand access to prenatal care in rural Oregon with mobile clinics was scuttled because those clinics ...

Maternal mortality rates have soared in the U.S. to nearly three times those of other high-income countries. Over 20 percent of deaths among new mothers are from suicide and overdose. Researchers and ...

Some hospitals are allowing dogs to spend entire shifts at the hospital for the doctors and nurses. The trained dogs help staff cope with the stress of their work amid high levels of burnout.

Women now comprise the clear majority of students enrolled in the nation’s health care training programs in medicine, ...