The state Health Department has told hospitals to have guidelines in place to help them better recognize and treat conditions ...

The CDC reports a significant decline in maternal mortality though a slight increase for African American women, and media focus on the latter.

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.

The U.S. maternal mortality crisis is driven by various factors, but primary care providers are uniquely positioned to ...

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

A Feb. 13 study published on JAMA Network analyzed the impact of recent pro-life laws by looking at state-level fertility ...

Press Release - Tanzania has reduced maternal mortality by 80% in a seven-year period, from 556 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2016 to 104 per 100,000 in 2022. The success is attributable to ...

The CDC reports that black women are 3 to 4 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than white women.

States that implemented abortion bans had an estimated 0.33 additional infant deaths per 1,000 live births above the expected ...

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