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 ...

A groundbreaking new analysis of two million births indicates that rich Black women and their babies are twice as likely to die in the year after childbirth compared to their white counterparts ...

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 ...

More Black babies are dying than white infants. Scientists are blaming healthcare inequality - Researchers say five million Black Americans could have been saved since the 1950s if their mortality ...

While King County’s overall infant mortality rate of 4.1 deaths per 1,000 births between 2019-2021 is below the national average rate of 5.4, according to CDC data, Black and Native babies are ...

Of 88,125,233 live births, 8,951 infants died of NEC. Rates of NEC-related deaths per 100,000 live births were higher among Black infants (16.1) compared to White infants (6.4).

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 ...