When Efua, a 25-year-old fashion designer and single mother in Ghana, became pregnant last year, she sought an abortion at a health clinic but worried the procedure might be illegal. Health workers assured her abortions were ...
Apr 2, 2024
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The most important support person for women to succeed in their ambition to breastfeed is the new mother's partner. The partner also needs to be included through more support from health care professionals.
Jan 19, 2024
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The majority of people living with advanced breast cancer give up working against their will, according to research presented at the Advanced Breast Cancer Seventh International Consensus Conference (ABC 7).
Nov 8, 2023
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As we enter cold, flu and COVID season, Canada is continuing to experience a health-care crisis. One in six Canadians don't have a family doctor and less than 50% are able to see a primary care provider on the same or next ...
Oct 23, 2023
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Grandparents appeared to serve as an important private safety net when COVID-19 first hit the U.S., according to a study led by a Washington State University researcher.
Aug 30, 2023
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In 2017, a road accident left Anna Nzioka with two fractures in her right leg. After a series of operations and physiotherapy, she has slowly learned to walk again, although with the aid of a crutch.
Aug 4, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Hertfordshire are calling for urgent action to provide safe and stable accommodation for single mothers and their children, after research uncovered the devastating effects of the UK's chronic ...
Jul 3, 2023
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Wracked by guilt after taking an abortion pill, a sobbing woman calls a US hotline. It recommends a "reversal" treatment to save the fetus—despite medical warnings that it is potentially life-threatening.
Jun 20, 2023
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A decline in New York's childbirth rate is showing no sign of reversing and many women are waiting longer to have children, according to newly compiled data from the Program in Applied Demographics (PAD) in the Cornell Jeb ...
May 8, 2023
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Harvard Medical School student Bruce Ramphal grew up in the bustle and blight of a five-story Bronx apartment building where, from an early age, he saw and heard about neighbors and friends losing their homes. Evictions were ...
May 3, 2023
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