Overall U.S. maternal health outcomes for Black and Indigenous birthing people continue to trail far behind white birthing people. This includes parents from all socioeconomic backgrounds. International tennis star Serena Williams documented her own traumatic birthing...
In November 2021, after more than a year of investigating the racial health disparities across its organization, Boston Medical Center launched the Health Equity Accelerator, a radical system-wide transformation to improve health outcomes for BMC’s Black and...
In April 2020, the start of the pandemic, Christina Yarrington, MD, FACOG, director of labor and delivery at Boston Medical Center knew that in order to address the approximately 30% of patients who manage hypertensive issues during their pregnancies, she needed to...
In the United States, approximately 700 women die as a result of pregnancy or its complications every year. And within this 700, major disparities exist. Black birthing people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, had significantly more...
Being pregnant or trying to conceive amid the coronavirus pandemic brings a host of worries for expectant mothers. At the top of the list is the decision whether or not to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna COVID-19 vaccine, both of which have been approved for...