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A new addiction recovery center for women and their children, Fresh Start Family Focused Recovery, has opened in downtown Columbus. The center, run by Volunteers of America, allows women to enter ...

Pre-eclampsia, a condition that causes dangerously high blood pressure, is a leading cause of death among mothers and babies.

Jennifer Bradley was told in 1970 that the DES drug prescribed during pregnancy was ‘completely safe’ - but it has left her ...

Leslie spent her time in jail on a mattress on the floor in the day room because there were no cells available. Four months pregnant, she spent one agonizing day there withdrawing from opioids before ...

A woman is calling on the government to apologise over a cancer-linked drug that was historically given to women to prevent miscarriage.

Tennessee's legislature gave its approval a bill that would criminalize some drug-addicted pregnant women, depending on the outcome of their pregnancy. The bill, if signed into law, would allow ...

This story, originally published in September, has been updated with new information about the Texas attorney general’s lawsuit against the makers of Tylenol. President Donald Trump and other federal ...

Alabama locks up more pregnant women than any other state by far, according to a new report. Pregnancy Justice, a nonprofit that defends the rights of pregnant people, found that from June 2022 to ...

“Well, we don’t have as much evidence as we would like on steroid use during pregnancy,” the obstetrician warned my co-author, Natalia Emanuel, as she wrote a prescription for inhaled corticosteroids ...