Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A woman holds a newborn baby. Some states and hospital systems have updated their policies on drug testing for pregnant women and ...

Amairani Salinas was 32 weeks pregnant with her fourth child in 2023 when doctors at a Texas hospital discovered that her baby no longer had a heartbeat. As they prepped her for an emergency cesarean ...

Ayanna Harris-Rashid was sitting up in bed, her newborn son latched to her breast, one hand scrolling on her phone, when the police called. She was wanted on a felony charge of child neglect.

The birth of Emily and Michael Donlin's second child did not go as planned. The labor progressed quickly, and Emily gave birth March 30 on the back porch of their Des Moines home. Michael caught the ...

Investigations have found that hospitals and child protective services (CPS) agencies often rely on drug screening tests with false-positive rates reported to be as high as 50%. Despite this, results ...

Three years after Colorado stopped requiring doctors to report newborns who tested positive for drugs as possible child abuse victims, the number of families referred to child protective services for ...

(The Center Square) – The legislature is ready to send a bill to Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker that removes the mandate that the Department of Children and Family Services must report newborn babies’ ...

Background and goal: Black birthing parents and their newborns disproportionately experience newborn drug testing for prenatal substance exposure by health care professionals. This practice ...

Newborns at risk for lack of medical intervention. Major Massachusetts hospitals no longer regularly perform toxicology tests on newborns or report prenatal exposure to addictive substances to state ...

A woman holds a newborn baby. Some states and hospital systems have updated their policies on drug testing for pregnant women and newborns, aiming to better support patients who are in recovery from ...