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

The world has made huge strides in reducing child mortality over the past few decades. Since 1993, the global under-five mortality has dropped by 60 percent, with the mortality rate of newborns having ...

While progress in the battle against maternal mortality began to slow nearly a decade ago, UN agencies voiced concern that ...

Since 2000, global maternal mortality has decreased by 40 per cent, and for the first time, no country is estimated to have an 'extremely high' maternal mortality rate of over 1,000 deaths per 100,000 ...

Three decades of data from the Global Burden of Disease Study were analyzed for trends in global, regional, and national ...

Between 2009 and 2021, avoidable mortality has increased in all 50 states and Washington, D.C. but decreased in peer ...

Avoidable mortality has increased in the U.S. for more than a decade, contrasting decreases seen in many other high-income countries, according to a study published March 24 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The rate of maternal mortality related to cardiovascular causes more than ... The United States is supposed to be a global leader in advancing health and medicine, and the fact that we still have ...