Maternal mortality rates across race and ethnicity have more than doubled in the last 20 years, and the increase has been more profound among Black, Native American and Alaska Native communities ...

Already, Nigeria has an alarming maternal mortality rate of 512 per 100,000 live births. A surge in home delivery, maternal experts say, would increase the indices of the nation’s MMR.

After spiking in 2021, the maternal mortality rate in the U.S. improved significantly the following year, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data ...

Both sides are partially right, because measuring maternal mortality is uniquely challenging. The question at the heart of identifying a maternal death — “Would this person have died if she ...

After years of neglect, the issue of maternal mortality is finally getting attention in policy and politics, as well as in the media, with headlines drawing attention to figures that show the ...

Across the nation, programs at all levels of government — federal, state and local — have the same goals to reduce maternal mortality and erase the race gap. None has all the answers ...