Policy Points The continuous coverage provision of the March 2020 Families First Coronavirus Response Act resulted in extended postpartum Medicaid for individuals with pregnancy Medicaid coverage...

For Release: Thursday, February 19, 2026 Contact: Emily Miota, 262-853-6863 Today, the Wisconsin state assembly voted to ensure that new moms on Medicaid have health insurance for a year after giving ...

Public policies, by way of the social narratives they reinforce, can affect health by mechanisms that are independent of any effects on resources and opportunities.

We had some tech issues so I'm running this back as an encore! Are you a grad student or postdoc stressing out about job talks? You’re wondering: Is it even worth trying given the attacks on our un...

Most people pushed out of SNAP in Connecticut didn’t find their way back in, even when work requirements were later reversed.

How would you solve the chronic disease epidemic? Here's STAT's extensive new data analysis, and nine ways to tackle the problem.

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NIH appears to be preparing to prohibit the awarding of new grants to institutions that have DEI programs or boycott Israeli companies

The U.S. maternal mortality rate increased 27% between 2018 and 2022, a new NIH study finds.

As part of the sweeping layoffs that rocked HHS, the entire staff that oversaw an annual survey to better understand infant and maternal health was placed on administrative leave.

Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.

Researchers lose access to crucial CDC data on maternal and infant health while they're made compliant with Trump executive orders

The cost burdens of maternity care may exacerbate significant racial disparities, researchers say.

COLLEGE PARK, MD – A new study out today in JAMA Health Forum is the first to show that Blac

The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection...

The Biden administration in early January denied the state’s proposal to exclude women who’ve had abortions.

Surveillance project of CDC and health departments used to improve maternal and infant health.

ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher white women around the time of childbirth in 2023.

This post looks at federal government databases with key health data that went offline on Jan. 31, 2025, including several related to HIV, some of which had returned by Feb. 2, 2025. It briefly descri...

Trump's executive orders seem to be part of a plan to leverage NIH and other grants to force universities to end DEI programs