'The Mourning After: A Black Infant Mortality Anthology,' the first of its kind, covers the unique, systemic grief of Black parents who have lost babies. Getty Images/Smile Culture is the mechanism ...

In their book, Miller and Smith describe how Hamilton County made progress by putting the needs of moms and babies at the center, then scaling interventions that worked. Through the lens of their ...

Abortion bans in 14 US states correlated with a 5.60% increase in infant mortality, resulting in 478 excess deaths. Non-Hispanic Black infants experienced a 10.98% relative increase in mortality, ...

On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Infant mortality is rising faster than expected in states with strict abortion limits or bans. Two new studies in the medical journal JAMA reveal how ...

Hamilton County was once considered to have the second-worst infant mortality rate in the country. But now the county has made significant progress in improving maternal and infant health outcomes.

Ohio’s infant mortality rate has remained stubbornly high for years. That’s especially discouraging, even shameful, in a state that’s home to such distinguished health care systems as the Cleveland ...

The Mississippi Department of Health recently declared a public health emergency in response to rising infant deaths in an unusual move to help speed up efforts to cover gaps in care. Lowering the ...

Fewer babies died before their first birthday in Hamilton County last year than in any year in the past quarter century, according to a new report on infant mortality. Cradle Cincinnati, which formed ...

Mississippi health officials have declared a public health emergency after releasing data showing the state's infant mortality rate has risen to its highest level in more than a decade. In Mississippi ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The nation's infant mortality rate dropped last year after two years of hovering at a late-pandemic plateau. Some experts think one reason for the drop could be a vaccination campaign ...

Michigan’s infant mortality rate reached the lowest point on record in 2023. The state reported 607 infant deaths within their first year of life, compared to 99,178 live births, for a rate of 6.1 ...