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

The U.S. has one of the highest maternal mortality rates among wealthy nations. Death rates among pregnant and postpartum women vary greatly in the U.S. by race and ethnicity, with research ...

Maternal mortality rates in the US remain high, especially compared with those of similarly wealthy countries, despite ...

South Carolina faces alarming maternal mortality rates, with Black women nearly twice as affected as white women.

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. Maternal mortality rates are 3.5 times higher for Black women than their white counterparts. These disparities are partly due to limited ...

A new study offers fresh insight into trends in maternal mortality in the United States. For the first time, the study disentangles genuine changes in health outcomes from shifts caused by how deaths ...

The American health care system is getting worse at caring for pregnant women and new mothers, flipping a two-year trend.

However, there are still some sharp differences in mortality rates ... of maternal mortality for African-American women versus women that are not African American, so of any other race,” Dr ...

That’s up from 669 deaths in 2023, but down from 2022 and 2021, when it was the highest level in more than 50 years.The maternal mortality rate rose to 19 deaths per 100,000 live births ...

Family Connects is a free program providing postnatal at-home nurse visits to any patient who gives birth at Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital. The goal is to reduce the city's maternal ...