Infant Mortality Fell for Decades. Why Did That Stop?
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.
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Infant mortality rate rises sharply when mothers experience pregnancy-associated death
A new study found that infant mortality rates in Massachusetts were 14 times higher among babies whose mother experienced a pregnancy-associated death than among babies whose mother survived pregnancy ...
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Infant mortality rises in states with restrictive abortion laws – new research
Three years after Roe v. Wade was overturned, abortion-limiting laws are leading to unintended outcomes. Maki Nakamura/DigitalVision via Getty Images Infant mortality has risen in states that enacted ...
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Committee scrutinizes maternal, infant mortality rates
State Health Commissioner Lindsay Weaver, right, presents to the interim public health committee on Sept. 25, 2025. (Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) As Indiana’s maternal and infant ...
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Data collection changes key to understanding maternal mortality trends in the US, new study shows
A new study led by researchers at the University of Oxford, published today (28 April) in JAMA Pediatrics, offers fresh insight into trends in maternal mortality in the United States. For the first ...
Morningstar
New March of Dimes Study Finds Lack of Maternity Care Associated with Higher Infant Mortality Across US
Analysis of more than 18 million births reveals infants born in counties with no maternity care access face a 14% higher risk of death. The paper, "Maternity Care Access and Infant Mortality", ...
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A mother’s death during or after pregnancy may increase risk of infant’s death or hospitalization
A new study found that infant mortality rates in Massachusetts were 14 times higher among babies whose mother experienced a pregnancy-associated death than among babies whose mother survived pregnancy ...
Afro
Black babies are still dying—and America let it happen
A sweeping new analysis of U.S. mortality data over the past 70 years reveals that Black children in the United States have consistently faced significantly higher mortality rates than their White ...
Medical Xpress
Odds of infant mortality higher among US-born than non-US-born individuals
U.S.-born individuals have higher odds of infant mortality than non-U.S.-born individuals, according to a study published online Jan. 6 in JAMA Network Open. Nicolette Christodoulakis and Giulia M.
Science Daily
Data collection changes key to understanding maternal mortality trends in the US, new study shows
A new study offers fresh insight into trends in maternal mortality in the United States. For the first time, the study disentangles genuine changes in health outcomes from shifts caused by how deaths ...
The Republic
Committee scrutinizes state’s maternal, infant mortality rates
As Indiana’s maternal and infant mortality rates tick down, the work isn’t done for health care advocates seeking to improve the state’s outcomes. Over a dozen people spoke to the state’s Interim ...