Millions of deaths could be avoided from meningitis if countries are able to adopt new guidelines designed to diagnose and treat the disease more effectively, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) ...

In Africa, WHO reports that 20 mothers and 120 newborns die every hour, amounting to of 178,000 maternal and 1 million newborn deaths annually. Every seven seconds, somewhere in the world, a ...

The AHA’s Better Health for Mothers and Babies Initiative (BHMB) offers tools and resources that hospitals and health systems ...

Deaths that could have been avoided have significantly risen in the United States over the last decade-plus, an analysis in ...

“Low vaccination rates and a lack of visible support from public health leadership can undermine public trust in vaccines, ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) has urged countries in the Western Pacific region, including the Philippines, to ensure ...

“For example, ‘maternal near-miss’ i.e. when a woman nearly dies but survives a complication during pregnancy, childbirth or ...

The audit found that a majority (65%) of maternal deaths took place in government hospitals, while 22% occurred in private ...

NewsCenter 5 spoke with Dr. Scott Hadland, the Chief of Adolescent Medicine at Mass General for Children's, and asked him what can be done to help prevent and reduce the number of gun violence deaths ...

An interim audit report reveals that nearly 70% of maternal deaths in Karnataka between April and December 2024 could have ...

NI is urged to adopt a preventable deaths tracker to monitor suicide and better manage harmful online content.