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The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints made a $1.2 million donation to strengthen maternal and newborn health services in Pakistan

AT 13 years of age, Sana was engaged to a cousin 10 years older than her. Marriage followed soon after. Naturally, the process of her physical and cognitive development was still in a crucial stage. Her father’s only source of income was small-scale farming, and she grew up stunted and undernourished. Poverty and uncertainty due…

During the Millennium Development Summit in 2000 the international community pledged to eliminate poverty and create a climate for sustainable development. Facilitating the attainment of this objective, eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were formulated; offering specific and measureable targets according to which policy makers appraise their development programmes. Within the context of the MDGs, maternal…

Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial has centered on the mental health issues the 36-year-old faced after giving birth to her third child

BackWhat are maternal health inequalities, and how are we stopping them? 30 July 2026 | By: Newcastle University | 3 min read

Child & Maternal Health Opinion: Data disruptions put powerful maternal and child health tool at risk sommart / iStock

PITTSBURGH, July 20, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — During pregnancy, fever is common, with roughly 1 out of 5 patients reporting the occurrence sometime during their gestational period

For the past few years, George King, the director of research at Boston’s Joslin Diabetes Center, has been following a medical mystery that has flown under the public-health radar—even, he told me, among most other diabetes experts. He and his colleagues have been alarmed by the skyrocketing rates of gestational diabetes they’ve seen among Chinese…