American Babies Are Less Likely to Survive Their First Year Than Babies in Other Rich Countries
Child mortality in the U.S., defined as deaths of children age 1 to 19, has likewise seen slower declines than in other ...
News Medical
Infant mortality rate rises sharply when mothers experience pregnancy-associated death
A new study found that infant mortality rates in Massachusetts were 14 times higher among babies whose mother experienced a pregnancy-associated death than among babies whose mother survived pregnancy ...
The Republic
Committee scrutinizes state’s maternal, infant mortality rates
As Indiana’s maternal and infant mortality rates tick down, the work isn’t done for health care advocates seeking to improve the state’s outcomes. Over a dozen people spoke to the state’s Interim ...
EurekAlert!
Data collection changes key to understanding maternal mortality trends in the US, new study shows
A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford, published today (28 April) in JAMA Pediatrics, offers fresh insight into trends in maternal mortality in the United States. For the first ...
National Review
Major Infant-Mortality Study Was Edited to Preserve Racial ‘Perspective’
Researchers deliberately obscured a data point about white babies under the care of black physicians because it ‘undermines the narrative.’ When the high-profile Students for Fair Admissions v.
Afro
Black babies are still dying—and America let it happen
A sweeping new analysis of U.S. mortality data over the past 70 years reveals that Black children in the United States have consistently faced significantly higher mortality rates than their White ...
wtvr
Mississippi calls infant mortality rates ‘unacceptable’ in emergency declaration
Mississippi declares a public health emergency as 2024 infant deaths reach highest rate in over a decade, far above the U.S. average. The Mississippi State Department of Health has declared a public ...
Yahoo
Committee scrutinizes maternal, infant mortality rates
State Health Commissioner Lindsay Weaver, right, presents to the interim public health committee on Sept. 25, 2025. (Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) As Indiana’s maternal and infant ...
Science Daily
Data collection changes key to understanding maternal mortality trends in the US, new study shows
A new study offers fresh insight into trends in maternal mortality in the United States. For the first time, the study disentangles genuine changes in health outcomes from shifts caused by how deaths ...
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Indiana committee scrutinizes maternal, infant mortality rates
As Indiana’s maternal and infant mortality rates tick down, the work isn’t done for health care advocates seeking to improve the state’s outcomes. Over a dozen people spoke Thursday to the state’s ...