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A new European study has found high levels of maternal ill health, alongside persistent work-life balance and career penalties, in the UK and mainland Europe.How bad…

The rate of women dying during or soon after pregnancy in the UK has increased by 20% over the last decade, despite the Conservatives having pledged…

Your report (Risk to women of severe bleeding after giving birth at five-year high in England, 13 December) rightly points out that the risk to women…

The advice given by coroners in England and Wales to help prevent maternal deaths is not being acted upon, research suggests.Academics at King’s College London looked…

Dawn had just broken across the trail through the Pir Panjal mountains when Fatima Deader felt the first labour pains. She and her family had almost…

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Seven years ago, when…

Jaime Slaughter-Acey was in a state of shock and anger when she learned that her National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study on birth outcomes in Black…