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.

While the mortality rates for both Black and white infants have improved, the disparity between races has worsened. For Black infants in the 1950s, the mortality rate was 92 percent higher than ...

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.

It has been pretty well documented recently that, during slavery and into the 20th Century, black babies were used as alligator bait in North and Central Florida. One of the most frequently cited ...

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 ...

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 ...