Infant mortality rates are on the rise after Roe v. Wade was overturned and states began to implement strict abortion bans, a new study finds. The study, published Monday by JAMA Pediatrics ...

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 ...

The study in question, “Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns,” suggested that the mortality rates for black newborns decline significantly ...

A new report presented in New York on 8 April reveals that current United Nations projections on infant mortality rates are inaccurate. The Fragile Futures report says crucial factors missing from ...

The state dropped one spot to rank No. 34 in the national 2025 KIDS COUNT Data Book, which tracks 16 indicators of child well-being.

To explore this question, a new study re-examines a popular theory that the rate of aging hasn’t changed—it’s just been ...

After decades of stalled national progress in reducing the rate of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID), a category of ...

Indiana’s infant mortality rate improved again in 2024 to 6.3 according to new preliminary data from the state.

Nigeria has for long grappled with one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world — a stark indicator of the ...

Provisional data for 2024 released on Tuesday shows Indiana’s Infant Mortality Rate (IMR) is 6.3, down from 6.6 the year ...

(Indianapolis, IN) – Provisional data from the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) show the 2024 infant mortality rate (IMR) ...