BAMBERG, S.C. — Years before the Bamberg County Hospital closed in 2012, and the next-closest hospital in neighboring Barnwell shut its doors in 2016, those facilities had stopped delivering babies.

In Michigan, the overall Black infant mortality rate increased from 13.4 in 2011-2013 to 14.2 in 2020-2022, while general infant mortality decreased from 5.3 to 4.5.

Such babies are rare — just 1.2% of white babies and 3.3% of Black babies are born so small — but are extremely vulnerable and least likely to survive. “That’s where the death rates really ...

Black infants in Mississippi were nearly twice as likely as white ones to die over the past decade, according to a report unveiled Jan. 18 by the state Department of Health.

One of the more disturbing findings in the new report was an increase in infant mortality among babies born to women ages 25 to 29. The rate increased to 5.37 per 1,000 live births last year, up ...

A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that, over 20 years, Black people in the U.S. experienced more than 1.6 million excess deaths and 80 million years of ...

A new study published in JAMA found that over two decades Black people in the U.S. experienced more than 1.6 million excess deaths and 80 million years of life lost because of increased mortality risk ...