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Innovation
Scripps, Microsoft Bring Digital Health to Bear on PregnancyThe Scripps Research Digital Trials Center is partnering with a wide range of digital health companies and stakeholders in a...
Clinical Care
New Study Estimates the Costs of U.S. Maternal MorbidityFor nine common maternal morbidities in 2019, medical costs were estimated at more than $18 billion and nonmedical costs were...
Clinical Care
Texas Providers See Increased Interest in Birth Control Since Near-Total Abortion BanMedical staffs are doubling down on educating patients about birth control.
Strategy
High Court Hears Cases on Novel Texas Law, but Outcome May Not Affect Abortion AccessSupporters of the law have said it was specifically designed to prevent federal courts from blocking the law since no...
Strategy
Democrats Roll the Dice on Sweeping Abortion Rights Bill — AgainThe question now, as it was then, is whether the legislation will help or hurt Democrats on one of the...
Telehealth
Telemedicine Abortions Offer Cheaper Options but May Also Undermine Critical ClinicsNonprofit Carafem delivers abortion pills to a patient's home after a telemedicine visit for $375 or less.
Clinical Care
Effort to Limit Unnecessary C-Sections Making StridesCesarean section births can have dangerous complications such as hemorrhaging.
Strategy
With Restrictions Tightening Elsewhere, California Moves to Make Abortion CheaperState lawmakers are debating a bill to eliminate out-of-pocket expenses like copays and payments toward deductibles for abortions and related...
Clinical Care
Black Women Turn to Midwives to Avoid COVID and 'Feel Cared For'As the COVID-19 pandemic has laid bare healthcare inequities, more Black women are looking to home birth.
Covid-19
Agonizing Lag in Coronavirus Research Puts Pregnant Women and Babies at RiskAfter months of asserting pregnant women were not at high risk for the coronavirus, the CDC recently released a study...
Clinical Care
Born Into a Pandemic: Virus Complicates Births for Moms and BabiesAcross the U.S., COVID-19 is radically altering medical care, not only for vulnerable elders but also for pregnant women and...
Clinical Care
Top 10 Patient Safety Concerns for 2020Missed and delayed diagnoses lead patient safety list developed by the ECRI Institute.