Dr. Laura Stachel's work "revolutionizes safety in childbirth" across the globe, says midwife Rachel Zaslow Wendy Grossman Kantor is an award-winning journalist who has contributed to PEOPLE for over ...

She was even more surprised by the nonchalant response. “You didn’t even see people reacting because it was something they were so used to,” she said ...

In 2008 Dr. Laura Stachel went to Nigeria to investigate the high rate of maternal mortalities (1 in 23) and was astounded to discover that energy deprivation-- no electricity-- was a MAJOR ...

KANO, Nigeria - The World Health Organization says the number of women who die from pregnancy and childbirth has been cut in half over the last 20 years. While that is an encouraging development, ...

We Care Solar, a California-based nonprofit, has delivered off-grid suitcase-sized solar kits to more than 10,000 health clinics in sub-Saharan Africa. The kits are designed to provide lighting for ...

One of the solar kits also helped during a recent cholera outbreak in the Congo Solar energy in a suitcase is an invention saving lives around the world in places that lack reliable electricity. Dr.

BERKELEY, California (CNN) — On a research trip in Nigeria, Dr. Laura Stachel watched as physicians performed an emergency cesarean section. What happened next stunned her. “The lights went out,” ...