Though the findings are encouraging, they notably exclude maternal deaths due to nonobstetric causes, which make up a ...

Maternal fetal medicine and family medicine physicians stress that we must keep fighting the glaring disparities in maternal ...

Maternal mortality rates in the United States fell in 2022 after at least three years of continuous increases, new federal data shows. In 2022, 817 women in the U.S. died of maternal causes with a ...

New research points to potential links between racism, economic deprivation, and the elevated rates of maternal mortality ...

Black women in the U.S. face a maternal mortality rate at least three times higher than white women, a disparity that persists across income and education levels. Physicians and advocates attribute ...

Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is a contributing writer at STAT focused on boys’ and men’s health. Too many new moms are dying in the U.S. Exactly how many, however, is harder to establish. After years of ...

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals a striking 17% decline in maternal mortality after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, defying alarmist predictions.

Efforts to reduce Black maternal deaths in North Carolina face funding cuts, policy hurdles, and ongoing gaps in access to doula care.

A recent report from the Minnesota Department of Health found that maternal mortality among Native American women is 12 times higher than the statewide average. And that most of those deaths were ...