The Latest Breaking News from Infant Mortality

Infant mortality fell by nearly 30% since 1999 but has risen over the last two years.

The entire system needs to embrace both maternal and infant health as one, experts say

Experts say maternal care deserts could be exacerbating the issue

The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year, which is the largest increase in two decades

The same study found that the mortality rate for Black infants was more than twice that of white ones. From Truthout.

Social media users shared a range of false claims this week

Those numbers reflect a worldwide problem, but the U.S. in particular has an abysmal record

Every two minutes, in about the time it takes to read a page of your favorite book or brew a cup of coffee, a woman dies during pregnancy or childbirth, according to a February 2023 report from the World Health Organization. The report reflects a shameful reality in which maternal…

Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal: In a dissent from last week's ruling against racial preferences in college admissions, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson enumerated purported benefits of "diversity" in education. "It saves lives," she asserts. "For high-risk Black newborns, having a Black physician more than doubles the likelihood that…

As an economic boom’s gains pass them by, people in unprotected land have been hit by hunger and disease, with infant mortality rates seven times higher than the rest of Brazil

BAMBERG, S.C. — Years before the Bamberg County Hospital closed in 2012, and the next-closest hospital in neighboring Barnwell shut its doors in 2016, those facilities had stopped delivering babies.