Pregnant star Whitney Purvis narrowly avoids jail time after making a last-minute child support payment, amid ongoing legal ...

Dozens of pregnant women locked up in county jails described excruciating pain, saying their cries for help were ignored as they miscarried or gave birth into cell toilets or on filthy jail floors.

Every year, a group of Oregon health care professionals gathers for a grim exercise — reviewing every case in which a mother died during or soon after pregnancy. This past February, they reported a ...

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. The president of the United States recently claimed that the use of acetaminophen, commonly known by the brand name ...

Dominique Allen receives funding from the Australian Research Council. A Sydney warehouse worker fired by text message within two weeks of telling her employer she was pregnant has won her job back, ...