Mississippi is taking steps to address its high maternal and infant mortality rates. The Mississippi Hospital Association ...

Another reader felt that the biggest benefits of a falling human population will be to the planet itself: “Less pollution, less deforestation, less mass extinctions of other species, etc., etc.

After her maternal mortality bill died, Sen. Kamesha Mumford is requesting $20 million for a program she says would help new ...

The healthier the Mom, the healthier the baby. The Mississippi State Department of Health is combating infant mortality through education.

The Vanderburgh County Health Department attributes the improvement essentially to active intervention in lieu of data collection alone.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — For every 1,000 live births in Michigan, six babies die before their first birthday. In 2023, according to a report by the state, 607 infants under the age of one died. This puts ...

For months, Dr. Daniel Edney had watched his state's infant mortality rate rise. "It just kept climbing," he remembers. "We'd get another death coming in, another death coming in." As the public ...

Infant mortality rates have increased in states that adopted abortion bans after the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a new study. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of ...

Black Breastfeeding Week, observed each year from Aug 25-31, was created to close gaps in breastfeeding rates among Black families. Breastfeeding is a critical public health strategy to decrease high ...