On the morning that my daughter-in-law went into labor, a small bird crashed into our apartment window and lay dead […]
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On the morning that my daughter-in-law went into labor, a small bird crashed into our apartment window and lay dead […]
Wendy Kline has delivered a new addition to the history of childbirth in America. In her engaging and well-researched book, […]
On the evening of April 17, 1956, thirty-three-year-old Helen O. visited nurse Mamie Cadden at 17 Hume Street, Dublin, for […]
In 1866, a young man in Crestline, Ohio, visited Dr. J. Stolz to ask the physician for help. Mr. B’s […]
I was diagnosed with endometriosis when I had my first laparoscopy at 14. I’m very lucky. I got my period […]
In December of 2016, I wrote an essay for Nursing Clio called Nurse-Midwives are With Women, Walking a Middle Path […]
20 weeks. That is the magic number according to the GOP. House Republicans last week passed a bill, which they […]
On January 21 this year, thousands of people rallied in central London in solidarity with the Women’s March on Washington, […]
On December 16, 1975, a group of Washington, D.C. area women’s health activists held the first-ever protest at the headquarters […]
The first time I walked into the women’s area of my local Korean spa a few years back, my nose […]