More than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021, including a South Dakota hospital that serves small towns, farming communities, and a Native American reservation. Patients the...

We work to document local U.S. pandemic-era policies to better understand how policy variation and implementation have impacted health and health disparities.

Birth centers, where midwives deliver babies with emergency backup from hospitals, can offer an alternative for families as hospitals close maternity units. But the state’s stiff regulations and what ...

A proposed FDA rule would set nicotine levels on tobacco products at less than half the current average and could save millions of lives, proponents say.