Commonly cited statistics on the mortality risk of pregnancy when compared to abortion in the U.S. are a vast undercount, ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. A new U.S. government paper documenting an increase in maternal ...

Maternal mortality rates in the United States fell in 2022 after at least three years of continuous increases, new federal data shows. In 2022, 817 women in the U.S. died of maternal causes with a ...

In Louisiana, the risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes is more than four times higher than in California, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund. In 2023, Louisiana had one of the ...

America rightly celebrates and invests in medical breakthroughs like cancer therapies and artificial intelligence diagnostics. Yet research and development in reproductive and maternal health still ...

A new World Health Organization report found that maternal mortality rates have either increased or remained the same in nearly all regions of the world in the past five years. "In 2020, we estimate ...

In Houston's medical hub, Black women face the highest maternal death rate.

By Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez for KFF Health News. Broadcast version by Mark Richardson for Arizona News Connection reporting ...

THEIR NAMES AND A MOTIVE HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED. NEW TONIGHT... MISSISSIPPI MOTHERS ARE DYING IN CHILDBIRTH AT ONE OF THE HIGHEST RATES IN THE COUNTRY. THAT'S ACCORDING TO RESEARCH FROM THE BIRTH ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — New data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ranks Tennessee number one for its maternal mortality rate from 2018 to 2022. According to the report, there were 166 ...

The recent death in childbirth of Dr. Janell Green Smith casts a grim light on the deplorable state of mortality among black ...