In Louisiana, the risk of dying from pregnancy-related causes is more than four times higher than in California, according to a new report from the Commonwealth Fund. In 2023, Louisiana had one of the ...

COLORADO (KOAA) — Across the country, Black women face significant disparities in the quality of health care they receive. These disparities directly affect maternal health and limit access to ...

Maternal mortality rates are on the rise for all races in the United States and are strongly affected by the health of a woman before she conceives, a Texas advisory committee to the U.S Commission on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — New data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) ranks Tennessee number one for its maternal ...

State Health Commissioner Lindsay Weaver, right, presents to the interim public health committee on Sept. 25, 2025. (Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) As Indiana’s maternal and infant ...

There are several reasons for Texas’s high maternal mortality rate. Texas has a large rural population: 47% of counties lack any maternity care services, and over 25% of rural mothers live more than ...

Despite being a high-income nation, the US experiences high maternal mortality rates that continue to climb. From 2018 to 2021, the rate nearly doubled, increasing from 17.4 to 32.9 deaths per 100,000 ...

Clare Ath is senior policy analyst for Human Coalition, one of the largest pro-life organizations in the nation that operates a network of telecare and brick-and-mortar women's care clinics across the ...

North Korea's maternal mortality rate was estimated at 67 per 100,000 live births in 2023, a number dramatically lower than in 2000 but nearly 17 times higher than South Korea's figure, a report ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. America rightly celebrates and invests in medical breakthroughs like cancer therapies and artificial intelligence diagnostics. Yet ...