Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below prepandemic levels overall but racial gaps widened, according to federal ...
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In the medical community, research has traditionally focused on how to prevent and treat the leading medical causes of maternal mortality, which include bleeding, infection, hypertension, and cardiovascular disease. However, ...
Jan 30, 2025
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Maternal mortality rates in the U.S. are consistently higher than those in many other high-income countries. These rates increase more for people in rural areas and people of color, who experience bigger gaps in health care ...
Dec 4, 2024
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An estimated 12 million teenage pregnancies are reported globally every year.
Nov 6, 2024
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Fourteen of Michigan's leading health networks and institutions gathered on October 28 to announce a collaboration to decrease the state's maternal and infant mortality rates.
Oct 29, 2024
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New findings published in The Lancet Global Health expose substantial global and regional disparities in the cumulative burden of life-threatening maternal morbidity across the female reproductive life span.
Oct 17, 2024
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People who inject drugs are dying at an alarming rate from endocarditis, a serious but treatable heart-valve infection. But their odds of survival improve dramatically, even five years after their first admission to hospital, ...
Oct 4, 2024
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Six weeks after an emergency cesarean section, with her newborn twins still in neonatal intensive care, Maya Gobara went to a pharmacy in West Little Rock, Arkansas, to fill a prescription.
Sep 23, 2024
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At the site of a race massacre that reduced neighborhoods to ashes a century ago, where murals memorialize a once-thriving " Black Wall Street," one African American mother strives to keep others from dying as they try to ...
Sep 4, 2024
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A new study has found that Medicaid ACOs in Massachusetts were associated with increases in prenatal and postpartum office visits, postpartum depression screenings, and timely postpartum care.
Sep 3, 2024
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