Infant mortality rates are on the rise after Roe v. Wade was overturned and states began to implement strict abortion bans, a new study finds. The study, published Monday by JAMA Pediatrics ...

Infant mortality rates have increased in states that adopted abortion bans after the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a new study. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School ...

The race-based element of the research might have put it in the crosshairs of the White House's bid to defund diversity, ...

The study in question, “Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns,” suggested that the mortality rates for black newborns decline significantly ...

When it comes to health data, good news can lack nuance. That’s borne out in the latest information on Indiana’s infant mortality rate.

After decades of stalled national progress in reducing the rate of Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID), a category of ...

MID-MICHIGAN (WJRT) - Michigan has recorded its lowest infant mortality rate in history, according to the Michigan Department ...

Nigeria has for long grappled with one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world — a stark indicator of the ...

The number of Hoosier babies who don’t make it to their first birthday is decreasing, according to provisional data from the ...

The state dropped one spot to rank No. 34 in the national 2025 KIDS COUNT Data Book, which tracks 16 indicators of child well-being.