Maude Callen, a Black nurse-midwife, delivered more than 800 infants across the South Carolina Lowcountry starting in the 1920s, when ...

The CDC reported that there were 64 congenital syphilis cases in Mississippi in 2021, up from 37 in 2020 and just two in 2017.

These days, there’s not even an ultrasound machine in this rural county 60 miles south of Columbia, much less an obstetrician.