Black infants died at a rate of 10.9 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, more than double the rate of 4.5 deaths per 1,000 live births for white women and 3.4 deaths per 1,000 live births for ...

Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling that guaranteed a right to the ...

At the same time, infant mortality has been on the rise. John Yang speaks with The 19th’s reproductive health reporter Shefali Luthra for more. Full Episode. Monday, Jul 7. Close Menu.

The study reveals how mortality rates among young Black people and working-age people rose during the pandemic, highlighting disparities and structural racism. October 11, 2024 4 min ...

A new study links regular poultry consumption to an increased mortality risk. Italian researchers found that people who eat more than 300 grams of chicken weekly are 27% more likely to die.

Maternal deaths spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, bumping the nation’s maternal mortality rate up to 33.8 deaths per 100,000 live first in June of 2022, according to the data.

Among white non-Hispanic women, the maternal mortality rate dropped from 19 to 14.5 deaths per 100,000 live births between 2022 and 2023 and fell from 16.9 to 12.4 for Hispanic women.

Childhood death rates are on the rise across the United States, new research has found. Between 2018 and 2022, child and adolescent mortality increased by 18.8 percent, more than twice the ...

Taking the data at face value, their report indicates that the maternal-mortality rate in Texas actually declined by 35 percent between 2021 and 2022. In 2022, the Texas Heartbeat Act had already ...

Mortality among children 12 to 59 months of age was not lower in communities in the infant azithromycin group (12.2 deaths per 1000 person-years at risk [95% CI, 11.3 to 13.1]) than in communities ...