New York — Deaths of pregnant women in the U.S. fell in 2022, dropping significantly from a six-decade high during the pandemic, new data suggests. More than 1,200 U.S. women died in 2021 during ...

You can’t blame this one on the stork. After a brief baby bump early in the COVID-19 pandemic, birth rates in the US and ...

Commonly cited statistics on the mortality risk of pregnancy when compared to abortion in the U.S. are a vast undercount, ...

The report, posted by the Tennessee Department of Health’s Division of Family Health and Wellness, details the causes of and ...

There aren’t enough alarm bells in the world to ring when it comes to the state of Black maternal health in the United States. And, a report from the Centers for Disease Control confirms some of the ...

Obesity is contributing to a record proportion of deaths among pregnant women, the Royal College of Physicians has warned.

Three Polish doctors have been convicted for their roles in the 2021 death of a pregnant woman, known as Iza, from sepsis WARSAW, Poland -- Three Polish doctors were convicted for their roles in the ...

Drug overdose deaths rose markedly between January to June 2018 and July to December 2021 among 10- to 44-year-old girls and women who were pregnant or pregnant within the previous 12 months, ...