Rising neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) capacity was not tied to lower infant mortality, a large cross-sectional study in ...

A population-based surveillance study evaluated the extent and persistence of excess infant and childhood mortality among Black Americans between 1950 and 2019.

A 2024 March of Dimes report card showed Ohio’s infant mortality rate at 7.1 deaths for every 10,000 births, ranking Ohio ...

Wall St. Insights Healthcare outcomes tend to improve with wealth and healthcare spending. In one advanced economy, however, ...

cross-sectional study using data from all live births and infant deaths in the U.S. from 2012 to 2023 to evaluate infant mortality rates across the 14 states with complete or 6-week abortion bans.

Two new studies in the medical journal JAMA reveal how restricted access to abortion can lead to higher deaths, especially ...

In 76104, the same zip code that houses Fort Worth's hospital district, a University of Texas study found the highest infant mortality rate in the state. Out of every 1,000 babies born to women ...

Fielding-Miller, who researches infectious diseases and gender-based violence, along with some colleagues who do similar work ...

These results suggest that the rise in avoidable mortality is driven by widespread factors across the entire US.

Missouri experienced a downward trend in the number of fetal and infant deaths, but in the past few years, the number of ...

France has long prided itself on its healthcare system and quality of life, but recent reports reveal a sobering reality: infant mortality rates in the country are stagnating, highlighting a pressing ...

Black mothers are three times as likely as white women to die in childbirth, and Black fetuses and infants die at rates far ...