Dr. Janell Green Smith advocated for Black people giving birth and just days into the new year, she died while giving birth ...

The work conducted by Green Smith was praised over the years by industry leaders such as the American College of ...

On Friday, Jan. 2, Dr. Janell Green Smith, a South Carolina-based midwife, died due to childbirth complications during the ...

A South Carolina midwife who lost her life to a cause she devoted an entire career to is reigniting a national conversation on the Black maternal health crisis. Dr. Janell Green Smith advocated for ...

The American College of Nurse-Midwives called Dr. Green Smith’s death a “profound failure of the systems meant to protect ...

Smith, a Black midwife, died after childbirth. Her death renews urgent calls to end the Black maternal mortality crisis.

No hospitals in the Gauteng province of South Africa have any record of the decuplets being born, government officials said.

Earlier this month, Mercedes Wells was ready to give birth at Franciscan Health Hospital in Crown Point, Indiana, when staff turned her away, saying that she would have to come back later because she ...