Despite medical innovations, maternal mortality rates in the US remain high, especially compared with those of similarly ...

Maternal mortality rates have dropped 17% since Roe v. Wade was overturned, but the U.S. still has high rates, indicating ...

The rate of maternal mortality related to cardiovascular causes more than doubled between 1999 and 2022 in the United States, according to a study being presented at the American College of Cardiology ...

Across the African region, an estimated 178,000 women die each year due to complications in pregnancy or childbirth.

“For example, ‘maternal near-miss’ i.e. when a woman nearly dies but survives a complication during pregnancy, childbirth or ...

According to the new report, the mortality rate for Black mothers ... new data uses the World Health Organization's definition, which says that maternal death is "the death of a woman while ...