Working alongside hospitals and health systems, the American Hospital Association’s Better Health for Mothers and Babies (BHMB) initiative aims to eliminate preventable maternal deaths and reduce ...

Clare Ath is senior policy analyst for Human Coalition, one of the largest pro-life organizations in the nation that operates a network of telecare and brick-and-mortar women's care clinics across the ...

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 ...

Despite being a high-income nation, the US experiences high maternal mortality rates that continue to climb. From 2018 to 2021, the rate nearly doubled, increasing from 17.4 to 32.9 deaths per 100,000 ...

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 ...

The addition of the pregnancy checkbox on death certificates in 2003 was responsible for most of the spike in maternal deaths since 2000. However, in 2021, adjusted maternal death rates peaked at ...

NEW YORK — Black women in the US died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below prepandemic levels overall but racial ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A report released Monday says that Tennessee has some of the worst infant and maternal death rates in the country. March of Dimes said that the U.S. is not doing enough to ...

CHICAGO, Illinois — Preventable pregnancy-related deaths rose and stark racial disparities remained in the Illinois Department of Public Health’s most recent maternal mortality report. The report ...