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 US Centers for ...
North Carolina’s maternal mortality rate saw a 100% increase from 2019 to 2021 during the peak of the pandemic, data shows. AsiaVision Getty Images In a country that has one of the worst maternal ...
Related video above: Disparities persist in Black maternal, infant healthMore U.S. women died around the time of childbirth last year, reversing two years of decline, according to provisional data ...
This story has been updated to include additional comment from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics' most recent report put the U.S. maternal ...
THEIR NAMES AND A MOTIVE HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED. NEW TONIGHT... MISSISSIPPI MOTHERS ARE DYING IN CHILDBIRTH AT ONE OF THE HIGHEST RATES IN THE COUNTRY. THAT'S ACCORDING TO RESEARCH FROM THE BIRTH ...
Grave warnings of a crisis in maternal deaths are being slightly eroded by articles suggesting that advocates overreached and that the “crisis” was primarily a ...
Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. A new U.S. government paper documenting an increase in maternal ...
There are several reasons for Texas’s high maternal mortality rate. Texas has a large rural population: 47% of counties lack any maternity care services, and over 25% of rural mothers live more than ...