Although the United States does not guarantee health care as a right, federal law mandates that hospitals cannot deny anyone ...
A new study found that pregnant people in Massachusetts who made multiple unscheduled hospital visits during their pregnancy were 46 percent more likely to experience severe maternal morbidity than ...
In the days since the Trump administration rescinded federal guidance tied to the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, EMTALA, a wave of alarming headlines has swept across social media: “Trump ...
A family recently reunited with emergency workers who helped save a mom and her baby boy after she went into cardiac arrest.
The Trump administration on Wednesday moved to drop an emergency abortion case in Idaho in one of its first moves on the issue since President Trump began his second term. The Justice Department filed ...
Strategies for hospitals and ED clinicians to reduce risks under EMTALA and state abortion laws Since the U.S. Supreme Court's June 2022 decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (Dobbs ...
When you’re pregnant, what can go wrong is often the last thing you want to think about. Unfortunately, the unimaginable sometimes happens: you’re in the middle of your pregnancy when all of a sudden ...
Candace Fails screamed for someone in the Texas hospital to help her pregnant daughter. “Do something,” she pleaded, on the morning of Oct. 29, 2023. Nevaeh Crain was crying in pain, too weak to walk, ...
A new study found that, among nearly 775,000 pregnant people in Massachusetts, 31 percent of these individuals had at least one unscheduled emergency visit to the hospital, and 3.3 percent had four or ...