This research investigated rural maternity care from the perspective of parturient women, care providers, health care administrators and local leaders. We found that women’s experiences were bound in the complexity of relationships that were influenced by the attitudes and actions of care providers and the organization of health system services. The study took place within a dynamically changin...

Tamilnadu state of India witnessed an increasing trend of institutional deliveries since the beginning of 1990s, with decline of domiciliary deliveries to nearly zero now. Among the institutional deliveries, a shift has been observed since 2006 wherein primary health centres (PHC) have shown a four-fold increase in the number of deliveries while other public and private health facilities showed...

Regular health care during pregnancy, birthing and the postnatal period is recommended for improving maternal and neonatal outcomes and accessing such care has become a common expectation for Australian families. Studies have highlighted the relative safety of birthing in rural hospitals even though these units are typically associated with low volumes of deliveries. Yet, in Queensland, the loc...

BACKGROUND Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families experience markedly worse maternal and child health outcomes than non-Aboriginal families. The objective of this study was to investigate the experiences of women attending Aboriginal Family Birthing Program services in South Australia compared with women attending mainstream public antenatal care. METHOD Population-based survey of mot...

As the building blocks of chromatin, histones need to be synthesized efficiently and synchronously with DNA replication. The mRNAs encoding the core histones undergo a distinct 30-end formation pathway that results in mature mRNAs ending in a stem loop instead of a polyadenylated tail. Considering that the factors involved in histone 30-end processing are well conserved across Eukarya, the abse...


 Birthing people in the United States pay more than citizens of other high-income countries and receive lower quality care, most which is provided by physicians hospital settings. Legal restrictions on midwives—the result two centuries pervasive sexist, racist, anti-immigrant campaigns—prevent birthing from making meaningful choices about their preferred location attendant, even though bi...