Over the last 30 years, U.S. growth in neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) capacity was not associated with lower infant ...

A 2024 March of Dimes report card showed Ohio’s infant mortality rate at 7.1 deaths for every 10,000 births, ranking Ohio ...

Wall St. Insights Healthcare outcomes tend to improve with wealth and healthcare spending. In one advanced economy, however, ...

cross-sectional study using data from all live births and infant deaths in the U.S. from 2012 to 2023 to evaluate infant mortality rates across the 14 states with complete or 6-week abortion bans.

In 76104, the same zip code that houses Fort Worth's hospital district, a University of Texas study found the highest infant mortality rate in the state. Out of every 1,000 babies born to women ...

Two new studies in the medical journal JAMA reveal how restricted access to abortion can lead to higher deaths, especially ...

France has long prided itself on its healthcare system and quality of life, but recent reports reveal a sobering reality: infant mortality rates in the country are stagnating, highlighting a pressing ...

Karen Clay: Our second main finding is that the higher lead concentration increases deaths from a variety of causes: low ...

Missouri experienced a downward trend in the number of fetal and infant deaths, but in the past few years, the number of ...

Preliminary numbers from the Ohio Department of Children and Youth put the state’s infant mortality rate at 6.5 per 1,000 live births for 2024. “That’s 80 fewer babies dying,” Director Kar ...

The analysis weighted the factors, placing more emphasis on the most “significant” metrics, including the percentage of income the average couple spends on one child, as well as infant and maternal ...

Reductions in official development assistance can lead to a significant increase in death among mothers, children, and infants, according to a new Stanford-led study that reviewed three decades of ...