New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the mortality rate for Black mothers has not improved despite decreases in other races. Black women were three and a half times more ...

In 2023, there was a drop in the maternal mortality rate for all but Black women, according to a Feb. 5 CDC report. The report collected maternal mortality rates for 2023 based on data from the ...

Another reader felt that the biggest benefits of a falling human population will be to the planet itself: “Less pollution, less deforestation, less mass extinctions of other species, etc., etc.

The number of babies in Hamilton County who died before their first birthdays increased last year. The number of babies in Hamilton County who died before their first birthdays increased last year.

For months, Dr. Daniel Edney had watched his state's infant mortality rate rise. "It just kept climbing," he remembers. "We'd get another death coming in, another death coming in." As the public ...