The United States has the highest rate of maternal mortality among developed nations, but the risk is even higher for Black American women who are three times as likely to… ...

Here is what you need to know about the rate, causes, and prevention of mortality during childbirth. When a person dies from anything having to do with pregnancy, it is called maternal mortality ...

Efforts to reduce the nation's persistently high maternal mortality rates involve state panels of experts that investigate and learn from each mother's death. The panels — called maternal ...

Maternal mortality rates have doubled in the US over the last two decades - with deaths highest among black mothers, a new study suggests. American Indian and Alaska Native women saw the greatest ...

However, Black women still had higher rates of maternal deaths than other women. The US maternal mortality rate fell from 32.9 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births in 2021 to 22.3 per 100,000 ...

That rate was more than double for black women, who were nearly three times more likely to die than white women, according to the CDC. Compared to other countries, the maternal mortality rate was ...

Efforts to reduce the nation’s persistently high maternal mortality rates involve state panels of experts that investigate and learn from each mother’s death. These maternal mortality review ...

it revealed "an overall upward trend in maternal mortality of about 4% per annum". One factor driving the problem, apart from the country's soaring debt and inflation crisis, is the low number of ...

Georgia dismissed all members of its committee in November after information about deaths being reviewed leaked to the news organization ProPublica. Days later, The Washington Post reported that ...