The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that nationwide, the black maternal mortality rate was 69.9 deaths per 100,000 births. Hospital closures, lack of access to health care, ...

Researchers found significant disparities in pregnancy-related death rates across states, races and ethnicities.

The paper analyzed data from a CDC database that is different from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System hit hard ...

Federal funding from the National Institutes of Health is critical to Louisiana. Major cuts would stymy research and economic development. In this guest column, Walter Leger, Jr. explains why.

North Korea's estimated mortality rate for children under age 5 reached 18 per 1,000 live births in 2023, marking two ...

Despite medical innovations, maternal mortality rates in the US remain high, especially compared with those of similarly wealthy countries.

All-cause mortality increased in 2020 to 2021 nationwide, with a slower increase in Medicaid expansion states, according to a study.

Maternal mortality rates have declined significantly across the world since the turn of the century, but global health ...

Judge Hatchett lost her daughter Kira just nine years ago after she delivered a second child through a scheduled cesarean ...

The following is a summary of “Demographic and regional trends of sepsis mortality in the United States, 1999–2022,” published in the April 2025 issue of BMC Infectious Diseases by Morrissey et al. Re ...