The Latest Breaking News from Infant Mortality

Experts say maternal care deserts could be exacerbating the issue

The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year, which is the largest increase in two decades

Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal: In a dissent from last week's ruling against racial preferences in college admissions, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson enumerated purported benefits of "diversity" in education. "It saves lives," she asserts. "For high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that…

As an economic boom’s gains pass them by, people in unprotected land have been hit by hunger and disease, with infant mortality rates seven times higher than the rest of Brazil

BAMBERG, S.C. — Years before the Bamberg County Hospital closed in 2012, and the next-closest hospital in neighboring Barnwell shut its doors in 2016, those facilities had stopped delivering babies.

The brutal war in Ukraine is now over a year old. While estimates of the numbers of civilians killed and injured vary, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has estimated that 8,317 civilians have been killed and a further 13,892 injured from the beginning of the war…

The program will offer monthly cash payments to pregnant women living in certain Philadelphia communities for 18 months

Maternal death rates are 62 per cent higher in states with restrictions, newly published research finds

An innovative infant bed and education program appears to have led to a 22 per cent drop in Queensland's infant mortality rate.