Babies
Dr. Javay Ross, a pediatrician and co-founder of the BLOOM: Black Baby Equity Clinic, conducts a health screening on Christina Dozier, 2, of Oakland, as Dozier sits on her grandmother’s lap on Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital’s Claremont Clinic in Oakland, Calif. (Dai Sugano/Bay Area News Group) As a Black mother, […]
By James FitzGerald BBC News 1 hour ago Image source, Andrea Mabry/University of Alabama at Birmingham Image caption, Kelsey Hatcher learned as a teenager she had a double uterus A US woman with a rare double uterus has given birth twice in two days – after a “one in a million” pregnancy and a total […]
Despite being an economic leader, the U.S. ranks in the top 10 countries with the highest rates of preterm birth in the world. Being born preterm, or earlier than 37 weeks, puts a baby at risk of serious disability and death and is the leading cause of death for infants globally. A new study finds […]
August 4, 2023 Board proclaims World Breastfeeding and Black Breastfeeding weeks, highlighting benefits and disparities for parents and their babies The Board of County Commissioners proclaimed Aug. 1 to 7, 2023, as World Breastfeeding Week in Multnomah County. This year’s proclamation for World Breastfeeding Week, passed during the Thursday, Aug. 3 board meeting, is intended […]
Prepare yourself for a bracing dose of radical ’90s Black queer cinema, as 48 Hills proudly joins with the Frameline LGBTQ+ Film Festival to bring you the vibrant 4K restoration of director Stephen Winter’s Chocolate Babies, which originally premiered in 1997. Let’s fill the Castro Theatre with Pride and joy at 1pm on Mon/19, the […]
An empty stroller is left behind at the scene of a mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, the United States, July 4, 2022. (Photo by Vincent Johnson/Xinhua) NEW . . .
Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Reproductive Rights Reporting Fund. JASPER — Ginger Kalafatis burst through the doors of Jasper Memorial Hospital, straight into her worst nightmare. It was Labor Day […]
Comment on this story Comment The essence of modernity is the replacement of nepotism with meritocracy. The pre-modern world was one of family connections and personal favors. Kings and Queens ruled as well as reigned. Families controlled the commercial world. Civil service jobs were handed down to relatives. Oxbridge colleges awarded fellowships automatically to descendants of […]
In many of the world’s most affluent countries, Black women are twice as likely as white women to have their babies die within four weeks of delivery, according to a new study that highlights persistent racial disparities in neonatal outcomes. The new analysis, published December 10 in the Lancet, examined data on almost 2.2 million pregnancies […]
So often, the answer to big societal challenges gets boiled down to the school curriculum. High levels of obesity? Let’s get schools to teach healthy eating. Too many people in debt? Financial literacy should be taught to every pupil. Concerned about the dangers of social media? Digital literacy lessons for all. Of course there’s nothing […]