The Alabama Court of Civil Appeals has ruled that the state health department has the authority to license and regulate ...

Dr. Heather Skanes opened Alabama's first freestanding birth center in 2022 in her hometown of Birmingham. Skanes, an OB-GYN, ...

If you've heard or come across the term free birth, or unassisted birth, in parenting communities recently, you might be ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ended a long-standing recommendation that all newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine, leaving it instead to parents, in consultation with a healthcare ...

Vaccine advisers named by Kennedy reverse decades-long recommendation US has had a universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation since 1991 Minority of members argue the change is not supported by data ...

The committee called for "individual decision-making." The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's vaccine advisory committee voted 8-3 on Friday to remove the universal recommendation for the ...

I have been reading exposés about the free birth movement for nearly as long as I have been covering women’s health. The movement’s adherents are women who give birth without trained medical ...

A small but growing number of pregnant women are choosing to give birth without any assistance from a midwife or doctor, trusting instead in influencers’ tales of the “euphoria” of a “free birth”. A ...

Good for DNI Tulsi Gabbard! Congressional Republicans Need to Strengthen, Not Weaken, Hyde Protections Don’t Replace One Nationalized Oil Industry with Another How to ‘Lose’ Greenland Bees Granted ...

A new bill will head to Congress to prevent women from being turned away or sent home from a hospital while in active labor, after a video circulated of a Black woman writhing in pain at an Indiana ...

Hannah Dahlen has worked as a private midwife in the past and attended homebirths. Hannah has received funding from the NHMRC to study the safety of place of birth. If you’re looking on social media ...