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

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 ...

Dr. LoRissia Autery takes issue with a federal plan funding robotic ultrasounds in rural Alabama for failing to address ...

In 2023, there was a drop in the maternal mortality rate for all but Black women, according to a Feb. 5 CDC report. The report collected maternal mortality rates for 2023 based on data from the ...

The public has been sold the lie that abortion keeps women safe and, by extension, reduces maternal mortality rates. We’ve been told lack of access to so-called reproductive care will kill women.

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 ...

The death of a Black midwife following complications from giving birth has renewed difficult questions surrounding inequities ...

The Mississippi State Board of Health met to discuss several topics on Wednesday, including maternal and infant mortality. In ...