Study finds more people are obtaining abortions but fewer are traveling to other states for it
Fewer people crossed state lines to obtain abortions in 2024 than a year earlier, a new survey has found.
Apr 15, 2025
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Population Characteristics: News and Research on Maternal Mortality
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Preventable pregnancy deaths: 2,679 lives lost in US from 2018–2022, researchers estimate
Researchers from the National Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Technical University of Munich, and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have found that 2,679 pregnancy-related deaths in ...
'It's a crisis': Panel discusses ways to improve maternal health care for Black women
A day after Tierra Jackson gave birth to her third child last November, she began to repeatedly complain about chest pains to her nurse, who then advised her that the feeling was normal after childbirth.
Apr 11, 2025
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Alabama passes law to expedite Medicaid access for pregnant women
In an effort to address high maternal and infant mortality rates plaguing many of the Southern U.S. states, legislators in Alabama have passed a bill that will allow Medicaid to be more easily accessible for pregnant women, ...
Apr 10, 2025
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Effective antibiotic for maternal sepsis saves health care costs, study finds
An international cost-effectiveness study, led by researchers at the UNC School of Medicine and the Kinshasa School of Public Health, has found that an effective antibiotic used to combat maternal sepsis vastly reduces health ...
Mar 27, 2025
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Expectant and new fathers seek more support to improve maternal health
A new Penn Nursing study reveals that expectant and new fathers, particularly Black American fathers, express a significant need for more resources and support to better assist mothers during pregnancy and childbirth. The ...
Mar 24, 2025
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Nigeria offers free cesareans to save mothers' lives, but it's not enough
Nigeria's government launched an initiative in 2024 offering free emergency cesarean sections to poor and vulnerable women, in a plan to bring down the high number of mothers dying in childbirth.
Mar 24, 2025
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Medicaid extension policies covering all immigrants found to reduce inequities in postpartum insurance coverage
A new study at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health reveals that Medicaid extension policies, which cover all immigrants in the post-COVID era, have led to a notable reduction in postpartum uninsurance, particularly ...
Feb 27, 2025
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Racial gap widened in deaths among US moms around the time of childbirth
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 ...
Feb 5, 2025
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National study finds homicide and suicide are top causes of maternal death
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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