The report notes that 42 counties in Indiana lack a labor and delivery unit, prompting maternal health advocates to call for ...

Black women saw their maternal mortality rate increase from 49.5 deaths per 100,000 live births to 50.3 over one year, while every other racial group experienced declines.

Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions after the ...

The findings showed the highest mortality occurred among infants who were Black, lived in Southern states or had fetal birth ...

Overall, infant mortality was about four times higher among births linked to abortion bans than it was in the general ...

New data from the CDC shows that Black women are three and a half times more likely to die due to pregnancy complications ...

Trump administration attempts to dismantle DEI initiatives are alarming public health researchers, who fear they could thwart ...

City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams recently convened a group of advocates and city leaders to move the needle on this crisis.

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Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont were the only 3 states to not report any pregnancy-associated firearm-related deaths from ...

By pushing for earlier detection, advocating for an integrated approach to maternal and cardiovascular care, and training ...

Black women are nearly seven times more likely to die than white women from a pregnancy-related death in New Jersey. Several ...