Fathers may get postpartum depression at a similar rate to mothers, but it’s often overlooked. At last, the way we diagnose and treat it is improving, for the good of the whole family ...

The Vanderburgh County Health Department attributes the improvement essentially to active intervention in lieu of data collection alone.

After raising $50 million, Hank and John Green helped open Sierra Leone’s first NICU — and the first baby arrived on day one.

University of New Hampshire sociology professor and demographer Kenneth Johnson says state must address “increasing needs of ...

Your zip code can be more powerful than your genetic code when determining the health outcomes of mother and baby.

One Democratic senator has filed a series of bills aimed at improving maternal health in Tennessee after data from the ...

Using the statistics from the WHO, the gap between lifespan and health span is nearly 9.5 years worldwide and 12.5 years in the U.S. as of 2021. In other words, the world gained years of life faster ...

U.S. births fell a little in 2025, according to newly posted provisional data. Slightly over 3.6 million births have been ...

George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was ...

3 School of Public Health, Shandong First Medical University & Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences, Jinan, China 4 School of Public Health, Shandong Second Medical University, Weifang, China 5 ...

Women may hold up half the sky, as Chinese Communist Party founder Mao Zedong once famously declared, but these days they must do so while also holding a baby — or preferably three — in their arms at ...