Women's and Maternal Health

Data shows children in Merced County are three times more likely to be obese than the average California kid.

It's a shocking finding: A recent study finds only one in 10 moms on Medicaid who screened positive for postpartum depression had even one mental health visit after six months. What's going wrong?

After California's success in lowering its maternal death rate, don't we already know why mothers are dying and how to tackle the problem? Are more committees and recommendations really needed?

Children’s health advocates say the governor’s overall proposal is the most ambitious they’ve ever seen when it comes to early childhood health.

It's a high-stakes problem lawmakers across the country are increasingly trying to address.

CNN reporter Neha Shastry set out to cover the complexities and nuances of America's abortion debate. She ran into roadblocks, reluctant editors and lots of contested facts.

Over the decade from 2008 to 2017, as the opioid epidemic took hold, the number of drug-exposed infants born per year nearly tripled in California

A recent study finds preemies had 1.6 times the risk of being readmitted to the hospital within their first year for injuries from physical abuse and neglect.

A new California survey of pregnant and new mothers paints a bleak picture of what it’s like to be a black mother.

This story was produced as a project for the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism’s 2018 California Fellowship.