While U.S. pregnancy-related deaths have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels, the country's maternal mortality rate is still a national crisis — far exceeding other high-income nations, a new report ...

The US maternal mortality rate is higher than most high-income countries, with significant racial disparities, particularly among Black and Native American women. Effective policies include expanding ...

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 ...

Headlines challenging the existence of a US maternal mortality crisis set off shock waves among clinicians, researchers, and advocates who are deeply engaged in the fight for maternal health and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The release of a critical report by The Commonwealth Funds this week only further underscores the decrepit state of healthcare in the United States, the center of world capitalism. The study, titled ...

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 ...