Federal statistics suggesting that maternal mortality rates plummeted after the overturning of Roe v. Wade are “highly misleading” and being misinterpreted by abortion opponents, according to new ...

Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is a contributing writer at STAT focused on boys’ and men’s health. Too many new moms are dying in the U.S. Exactly how many, however, is harder to establish. After years of ...

Federal statistics suggesting that maternal mortality rates plummeted after the overturning of Roe v. Wade are “highly misleading” and being misinterpreted by abortion opponents, according to new ...

The United States has the highest rate of pregnancy-related deaths among high-income countries, and a new study shows these "largely preventable" deaths have risen in recent years. Maternal mortality ...

The number of women who died during childbirth or within weeks of giving birth dropped sharply in 2022 after staggering increases during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, new data shows.

From 2016 to 2020, Black women in Harris County faced the highest pregnancy-related death rate in the United States—a ...

KFF used 2018-22 data from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics to compile maternal deaths and mortality rates. Maternal deaths are defined as deaths of women while pregnant or within 42 ...

US pregnancy and postpartum deaths receive substantial news coverage, and reporting is frequently alarmist. This summer, a LiveScience article claimed that “pregnancy is deadlier in the US than in ...

After a sharp rise in women dying in pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum earlier in the COVID-19 pandemic, rates decreased significantly in 2022, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for ...

Providing women with education, support and encouragement while they're pregnant, during labor and after child birth, the Oklahoma Birth Equity Initiative hopes to improve maternal mortality ...

More than 5% of cases of sudden infant death may be linked to maternal obesity, new research showed. "When a parent has a child that dies of sudden unexplained infant death [SUID], it's extremely ...

The Maternal Care Bundle (MCB) sets best practice standards across 5 areas of clinical care, for implementation by NHS providers and commissioners across England. The aim is to reduce maternal ...