U.S. Hospitals Struggle To Protect Mothers When Childbirth Turns Deadly

All Things Considered | Jul 5, 2017

A joint NPR and ProPublica investigation finds the U.S. medical system can be unprepared when the complications of childbirth turn deadly. NPR reports on healthy mothers who developed one highly treatable complication — preeclampsia — and how it killed them.

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