Over recent decades, India has made significant progress to overcome maternal healthcare delivery gaps. In fact, India’s Maternal Mortality Ratio declined from 254 to 97 deaths per 1,00,000 live ...

The maternal mortality rate rose to 19 deaths per 100,000 in December 2024, an increase from 18.6 the year before. Maternal deaths spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, bumping the nation’s ...

Related video above: Disparities persist in Black maternal, infant healthMore U.S. women died around the time of childbirth last year, reversing two years of decline, according to provisional data ...

The mission of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship at UAB is to train future leaders in MFM with complementary skill sets in maternal care, fetal ultrasound, and clinical research. A three-year ...

Virilization is a condition in which females develop male traits such as male pattern baldness or excessive facial hair. It can happen to girls going through puberty and adult women. It also ...

Folks around the country are gearing up to celebrate “collective action” around improving health outcomes for Black mothers. The 2025 Black Maternal Health Week (BMHW25), which lasts through ...

You can reach Anil on Signal at aniloza.16. A new U.S. government paper documenting an increase in maternal mortality from 2018 to 2022 does not hedge in its conclusion, calling the issue “an ...

Credit: Getty Images Structural inequities in health care access have created disparities in maternal mortality in the United States. This disparity is even more stark when considering the maternal ...

Here is what we learned. State health department data on maternal deaths indicate that Indiana’s average maternal mortality rate for the years 2015-2019 is about 52 deaths per 100,000 births ...

Maternal deaths have dropped in the U.S. with the exception of Black mothers, according to data released this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A report from the ...

Her interests are ever-expanding, but she is especially drawn to the coverage of reproductive and maternal health, and their intersection with health equity. Too many new moms are dying in the U.S ...

New research reveals that maternal obesity before and during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of neuropsychiatric and behavioral conditions in children, including a 32% higher risk of ...