In 2023, the global maternal mortality ratio was 190.5 maternal deaths per 100,000 livebirths, according to recent study results.

The maternal mortality crisis in the United States is a national embarrassment, and it’s unfolding in real time. The U.S.

Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is a contributing writer at STAT focused on boys’ and men’s health. Too many new moms are dying in the U.S. Exactly how many, however, is harder to establish. After years of ...

In a letter to the state surgeon general, dozens of maternal health advocates say a new state plan to reduce maternal mortality fails to address systemic racism and puts an undue burden on individuals ...

Global maternal deaths have declined over the past three decades, yet progress has slowed in recent years and remains uneven ...

Well, this is horrifying: In Texas, ever since the state’s civilly enforced six-week abortion ban took effect in September 2021, the rate of sepsis among people who were hospitalized while losing a ...

Jain is a dual M.D./M.P.H. student at the East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Hinojos is an M.B.A./M.P.A. dual degree student at the ...

Florida’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee was created two decades ago to investigate why Florida moms are dying during ...