CDC data confirms a drop in Black birth rates, but viral claims of 7% in 2 years and 17% since 2019 overstate it.
Analysis of nearly 15 million births and 3.7 million abortions from 2018-2021 revealed pregnancy-related mortality is 45-70 ...
According to new data, Harris County, Texas has the highest Black maternal mortality rates, nearly double the national ...
US-born individuals have higher odds of infant mortality than non-US-born individuals, according to a recent study.
In Houston's medical hub, Black women face the highest maternal death rate.
Pronatalism – the belief that low birth rates are a problem that must be reversed – is having a moment in the U.S. Demographers generally gauge births in a population with a measure called the total ...
The recent death in childbirth of Dr. Janell Green Smith casts a grim light on the deplorable state of mortality among black ...
More babies are born preterm in Mississippi than anywhere else in the nation, and our infant mortality rate is significantly higher than the national average.
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH) will launch the “Saving the Smallest” Infant ...