ABC News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jen Ashton talks about the higher rates of infant mortality in Black and Native American children as well as those whose mothers smoke or had no prenatal care.

There was no such thing as reproductive freedom for poor women in early modern Catholic Europe.” A new article in the Journal of Modern History examines several facets of “reproductive unfreedom” in ...

A newly published study from researchers at the University of Arizona says one thing expecting mothers should watch out for is what water they drink.

Life expectancy in the United States rose from 2023 to 2024, “reaching its highest level ever,” according to a press release ...

A new study by financial website WalletHub has revealed where the best and worst states are to raise children in America.

For the first time, births to non-Hispanic White women no longer make up the majority in the United States, marking a major demographic shift with ...

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), with U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), today introduced legislation to ...

The report, now featured on the mytsv.com blog, combines longitudinal data with a series of futuristic visualizations to ...

Background Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the leading congenital cause of death in newborns worldwide. Approximately ...

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), with U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), today introduced legislation to ...

Preprints.org, operated by open-access publisher MDPI, cited its "withdrawal policy" as a whole, but no specific reason, for ...

The recent death in childbirth of Dr. Janell Green Smith casts a grim light on the deplorable state of mortality among black mothers in America.