Tag: Maternal Health
Nearly half of US hospitals no longer deliver babies, new report...
Rural hospitals keep losing the fight over leaner Medicaid budgets, and a separate analysis finds reaching the nearest labor and delivery unit already takes an hour or more in fourteen states.
A NY Hospital Tried To Close Its Birthing Center. This City...
The people of Troy, New York, united to challenge a national Catholic health system determined to close the last birthing center in the county.
What is postpartum psychosis?
Attorneys for Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts woman on trial for strangling her three young children in 2023, argued before a jury Tuesday that Clancy should not be held criminally responsible for their deaths. The 35-year-old former labor and delivery nurse, they said, had been experiencing postpartum psychosis, a rare and dangerous medical condition that alters […]
Women’s cancer rates are rising in the Oil Gulf: Is global...
There is a lot of fine particulate matter in the air in the Gulf, and if hotter temperatures make them harder on the human body, then that would be a problem.
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The Santa Ana by Joan Didion
Written by Joan Didion, The Santa Ana ("Los Angeles Notebook"/Slouching Towards Bethlehem) was published in The Saturday Evening Post in 1965.
30 Months After Uproar Over Jonathan Glazer’s Oscar Speech, What Do His Pro-Israel Denouncers...
Ten signers of a 2024 open letter condemning the director’s Academy Awards speech told the author whether their views have changed since.
The dark side of ecotourism: When green travel exploits people and the planet
As luxury eco-retreats and voluntourism surge, experts warn that without systemic reform, the industry may be doing more harm than good.
If Trumpism descends to grisly entertainment, why not hangings, guillotines, hungry lions, even burning...
Ready, Aim, Fire! with the latest culture of death stunt politics.
Social Security benefits rise 3.6 percent in 2027 as inflation accelerates
The increase, the largest since 2023, arrives alongside a projected $6.60 rise in the Medicare Part B premium and a debate over how the adjustment is calculated.