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Mercy Health has agreed to pull midwifery services from a planned primary care clinic in Ferguson after a local midwife accused the health system of…
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The longer a woman smokes during pregnancy, the more likely she is to have a low birth weight baby, a study by a St. Louis University epidemiologist has…
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She started using drugs at 16. After moving around the country and trying to quit several times, she came back to St. Louis four years later, hoping for a…
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Pregnancy triggers a cascade of changes in a woman’s body, including, in some cases, a special form of diabetes.Gestational diabetes — which causes high…
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In Illinois, losing a baby before its first birthday happens far more often to black mothers than those of other races. The difference between whites...
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For more than 80 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics has identified newborns as underweight if they weigh less than 5 and a half pounds.But some…
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Taja Welton is ready for her daughter to be born. She’s moved into a bigger house, one with room for a nursery. She has a closet full of pink, Minnie...
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Intense stress faced by new moms can also affect the emotional development of their baby. That's a good reason to expand Medicaid coverage to low-income…
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Twice as many United States women are dying in childbirth today as in 1990, even though all other wealthy nations have seen declines in maternal mortality…
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The St. Louis region has long grappled with high rates of sexually transmitted infections, but an uptick in syphilis among women of child-bearing age is…