(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Curisa M. Tucker, University of South Carolina (THE CONVERSATION) Living in a ...

Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood contributes to a rare form of heart failure known as peripartum cardiomyopathy, a potentially deadly disease that disproportionately affects Black mothers.

Back in the 1990s, the federal government tried an unusual social experiment: It offered thousands of poor women in big-city public housing a chance to live in more affluent neighborhoods. A decade ...

A new study showed that neighborhood factors such as housing quality, violence, education, access to healthy food and poverty may play a role in maternal and fetal health related to gestational ...

Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes being demolished in 2007. As high-rise public housing was removed, it was promised that displaced residents would eventually be allowed back into their communities in new ...

More than 800 of California's poorest neighborhoods could see new development thanks to tax breaks included in last year's federal tax bill. A little-noted provision of the federal tax overhaul passed ...

Living in a disadvantaged neighborhood contributes to a rare form of heart failure known as peripartum cardiomyopathy, a potentially deadly disease that disproportionately affects Black mothers.