Babies born where maternity care is scarce face greater danger, but new research reveals uneven impacts across racial groups.

Over the last decade, Ohio policy makers pushed to prevent more infant deaths. The state's infant mortality rate decreased slightly as a result, but the disparity between Black and white infant ...

(Reuters) - Increases in infant mortality have been found in U.S. states that enacted abortion bans or severe restrictions after the Supreme Court overturned the landmark ruling that guaranteed a ...

US-born individuals have higher odds of infant mortality than non-US-born individuals, according to a recent study.

Infant mortality in the United States decreased by 24.2% between 1999 and 2022. However, mortality rates from Sudden Unexpected Infant Death (SUID) rose significantly -- by 11.8% -- from 2020 to 2022.

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 ...

Twenty infants in Berrien County died before their first birthday in 2023. Michigan’s southeast-most county had a rate of 14.4 infant deaths per 1,000 live births, which was the highest rate among the ...

Black infants died at a rate of 10.9 deaths per 1,000 live births, the CDC said. Infant mortality rates remained relatively unchanged from 2022 to 2023, but racial and ethnic disparities still persist ...

Tennessee’s infant mortality rate has dipped since 2019 but remains significantly and persistently higher than the national ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina Department of Public Health released its annual report Thursday about infant mortality across the state in 2023. The report, which is not released until all ...