"There's some good news and then there's some bad news," said Helga Fogstad, the director of health for the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF. Her team helped produce a new report that marks a ...

CelebrateOne, Columbus’ infant mortality initiative, is spending $1.1M on area nonprofits to expand programs serving pregnant ...

Children in sub-Saharan Africa have the world's highest rates of under-5 mortality at 74 deaths per 1,000 live births, which is 14 times higher than the risk for children in North America and Europe.

The death of a child is a tragic event for a family, bringing with it feelings of numbness, anger, guilt and denial. And, unfortunately, for many families, the loss becomes too much to bear. A new ...

Researchers at VCU and Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU are shedding new light on how the increasing rate of child mortality in the United States has disproportionately affected certain racial ...

An autopsy technique developed by Spanish researchers, known as the minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) method, has shown that malnutrition and infectious diseases are the most common underlying ...