The Latest Breaking News from Infant Mortality

Every two minutes, in about the time it takes to read a page of your favorite book or brew a cup of coffee, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth, according to a February 2023 report from the World Health Organization. The report reflects a shameful reality in which maternal…

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…

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.

Nationally, infant mortality declined to a record low in 2020. But a 58% rise in Black infant mortality in Kansas sent birth experts searching for answers and solutions.

March of Dimes' annual report on infant and maternal health drops the U.S. from a C- to a D+, citing a 15-year high in the preterm birth rate. But it also offers some encouraging signs and solutions.

GROWING health inequalities which mean children in the poorest areas are more likely to suffer from obesity and are at greater risk of infant…

BALTIMORE — Nine women, some mothers, some expecting, sit chattering at a U-shaped table in a church hall on an October morning, happy to be out of the downpour outside. A few have young children underfoot. Guadalupe Franco, a community health worker, once as hungry for good parenting tips as…

Neonatal Mortality Rate and Infant Mortality Rate have also fallen by two points each in Karnataka