AUSTIN, Texas -- Lawmakers in Texas largely failed to take any significant action to address the state's skyrocketing rate of pregnancy-related deaths just months after researchers found it to be the ...

Maternal mortality rates are on the rise for all races in the United States and are strongly affected by the health of a ...

The US maternal mortality rate is higher than most high-income countries, with significant racial disparities, particularly among Black and Native American women. Effective policies include expanding ...

Over the last roughly 25 years, the maternal-mortality rate in the United States has been increasing, while most developed countries like Germany, Japan and Britain, have seen rates steadily decline, ...

Maternal mortality is an important health problem with widely accepted international support for risk reduction. In contrast to other developed countries, maternal mortality rates in the United States ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Women are twice as likely to die from causes related to pregnancy or childbirth in the United States than in Canada, a new global survey of maternal mortality published by the ...

After two years of decline in maternal mortality, especially in the number of women dying during or shortly after childbirth in the US, the numbers are again on the rise. As per the newly released ...

The public has been sold the lie that abortion keeps women safe and, by extension, reduces maternal mortality rates. We’ve been told lack of access to so-called reproductive care will kill women.

This defense has won over the hearts and minds of nearly all abortion advocates, but it has also convinced most pro-life advocates to carve out an exception to the rule in its case. According to the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As many as 80% of maternal deaths in the U.S. are preventable. Experts discussed the factors driving the ...

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 ...