Maternal deaths have dropped in the U.S. with the exception of Black mothers, according to data released this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A report from the agency’s ...

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 ...

Maternal and infant mortality rates in Missouri are among the worst in the country, a fact several state legislators hope to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Illinois’ fourth report on maternal mortality trends identified an increase and found that 91% of all pregnancy-related ...

Maternal mortality rates are on the rise for all races in the United States and are strongly affected by the health of a woman before she conceives, a Texas advisory committee to the U.S Commission on ...

Thursday is Maternal Health Awareness Day, and the United States has higher rates of maternal death than any other high-income nation. Philadelphia has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in ...

There are several reasons for Texas’s high maternal mortality rate. Texas has a large rural population: 47% of counties lack any maternity care services, and over 25% of rural mothers live more than ...

The rate of Texas women who died because of pregnancy or childbirth rose sharply in 2020 and 2021 to the highest since the state started tracking maternal deaths, in 2013. Even excluding deaths ...

Indiana’s progress in reducing infant mortality is welcome news. But testimony last Thursday before an interim Study Committee on Public Health, Behavioral Health and Human Services shows the numbers ...