Commonly cited statistics on the mortality risk of pregnancy when compared to abortion in the U.S. are a vast undercount, ...

Well, this is horrifying: In Texas, ever since the state’s civilly enforced six-week abortion ban took effect in September 2021, the rate of sepsis among people who were hospitalized while losing a ...

Clare Ath is senior policy analyst for Human Coalition, one of the largest pro-life organizations in the nation that operates a network of telecare and brick-and-mortar women's care clinics across the ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. A new U.S. government paper documenting an increase in maternal ...

Despite being a high-income nation, the US experiences high maternal mortality rates that continue to climb. From 2018 to 2021, the rate nearly doubled, increasing from 17.4 to 32.9 deaths per 100,000 ...

Maternal mortality rates are on the rise for all races in the United States and are strongly affected by the health of a woman before she conceives, a Texas advisory committee to the U.S Commission on ...

The addition of the pregnancy checkbox on death certificates in 2003 was responsible for most of the spike in maternal deaths since 2000. However, in 2021, adjusted maternal death rates peaked at ...

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CHICAGO, Illinois — Preventable pregnancy-related deaths rose and stark racial disparities remained in the Illinois Department of Public Health’s most recent maternal mortality report. The report ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A report released Monday says that Tennessee has some of the worst infant and maternal death rates in the country. March of Dimes said that the U.S. is not doing enough to ...