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 ...

While maternal deaths in the U.S. declined in 2023, Black women still died at more than three times the rate of white w ...

Maternal deaths have dropped in the U.S. with the exception of Black mothers, according to data released this week from the ...

Pregnant women are more likely to die of violence than any medical cause in the U.S. and are at greater risk for violent ...

Black women in the U.S. face the highest maternal mortality rates, with D.C. experiencing a severe crisis with 90% of ...

“Many people are surprised when they hear that violence is the leading cause of death in pregnancy,” says the study’s lead author Hooman Azad, MD, MPH, a fourth-year resident in the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Staten Island leads the five boroughs with the highest rate of deaths among pregnant women and new mothers, with overdose being the leading cause of pregnancy-associated ...