A study published in Obstetrics and Gynecology looks at heart defects in babies during the Covid-19 pandemic. Prof Kevin McConway, Emeritus Professor of Applied Statistics, Open University, said: ...

The U.S. infant mortality rate did not change from 2022 to 2023 and was 5.61 per 1,000 live births in 2023, accordin ...

The state of infant and maternal health in Arkansas has earned the state a grade of “F” in the latest March of Dimes report card.

The Alabama Department of Public Health (ADPH) says the state infant mortality rate increased in 2023, surpassing the rate in ...

A new report from the CDC spells out the state of newborn death in the US. The country continues to fall behind neighboring ...

Many pregnant women in the U.S, particularly in the South, face inadequate prenatal care, complicated by abortion ...

Greece ranked 17th in terms of fertility rates for 2024, occupying a position in the top twenty infertile countries of the ...

Data from an annual report outlines an increase in Oklahoma's maternal deaths from 31 per 100,000 live births during the 2019 ...

The nation's preterm birth rate, which last year was 10.4%, has not budged much in the past decade. Separately, a CDC report finds that babies born to Black moms die at a rate that's more than double ...

Being rushed to a hospital nearly two hours away, in the middle of a dangerous spring storm – with fear in her heart and ...

It was over 20 years ago, on Feb. 6, 2001, that " Good Morning America " made morning television history by taking viewers ...

Infant mortality rates remained relatively unchanged from 2022 to 2023, but racial and ethnic disparities still persist, new ...