Twenty-four million women rely on Medicaid for everything from maternal health and contraception to vaccinations and cancer ...

"You can educate these patients all you want," UConn Health's Dr. Richard Wagner said, "but if they don't have insurance, how ...

Maternal deaths increased between 2000 and 2019, and another sharp increase was recorded in 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Mississippi State Department of Health is ramping up efforts to tackle maternal mortality by implementing a new system of care to address the state's high maternal and infant mortality rates.

Black women are three times more likely to die from a pregnancy-related cause than White women,” according to the CDC.

bumping the nation’s maternal mortality rate up to 33.8 deaths per 100,000 live first in June of 2022, according to the data. The CDC referenced the World Health Organization’s definition of a ...

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"Adjusting for the change in data collection, we find that the rate of maternal mortality has been relatively constant since 2000." Park noted that while the checkbox doesn't change the definition ...

"If you focus on the mother, that trickles down to the children and the rest of the family unit," Mercy's chief medical officer said.

In 2023, the maternal mortality rate for Black women in the U.S. was 50.3 deaths per ... We need them, and when Black birthing bodies are safe and have good healthy outcomes, that means that everybody ...

In 2021, the maternal mortality rate for Black women was around 71 deaths per 100,000 live births, compared to almost 37 deaths for white women. Deja Foster, VP of the South Carolina Black ...

Punjab has suffered a dip in the maternal mortality ratio for the second consecutive year from 117 in 2023 to 111 in 2024 and 2025. Punjab has suffered a dip in the maternal mortality ratio for ...