Recent studies have found that areas with elevated nitrate levels also have elevated levels of lymphoma, leukemia and brain cancers in children.
Women's and Maternal Health
Nebraska’s nitrate problem is growing worse. It’s likely harming our kids.
Experts hope new universal basic income programs and an innovative maternal center will help protect Black infants and mothers.
Links between environmental exposures and maternal health outcomes remain underexplored, despite recent efforts to catch up.
A pledge to sharply reduce infant mortality by 2023 faces daunting obstacles.
The state acknowledges doula services as part of the solution to reduce maternal mortality.
Highly valued, proven effective and undercompensated.
Addressing institutional racism in health care.
A legacy of injustice and inequity underpins reproductive health care disparities faced today by people of color.
Native Americans travel among the farthest in the nation for maternal care. To fill the void they must rely on each other.