GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — For every 1,000 live births in Michigan, six babies die before their first birthday. In 2023, according to a report by the state, 607 infants under the age of one died. This puts ...

Black Breastfeeding Week, observed each year from Aug 25-31, was created to close gaps in breastfeeding rates among Black families. Breastfeeding is a critical public health strategy to decrease high ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The number of Ohio babies dying before their first birthday has dropped to its lowest rate in 20 years. Preliminary numbers from the Ohio Department of Children and Youth put the ...

Infant mortality rates in the United States increased last year for the first time in two decades, according to new federal provisional data. For the report, published early Wednesday by the Centers ...

States that implemented abortion bans had higher infant mortality rates. A new study finds that the infant mortality rate for births connected to the abortion ban were higher than expected. Rates of ...

They are the most vulnerable patients, and their care is being called into question. "Moms and babies are intertwined, if you think about it, in their health care, right? And infant mortality is ...

Without PRAMS, the U.S. will be less able to direct public resources toward the most effective interventions for meeting ...

A fund aimed at addressing Mahoning County infant mortality rates and providing care for expectant mothers was approved ...

For months, Dr. Daniel Edney had watched his state's infant mortality rate rise. "It just kept climbing," he remembers. "We'd get another death coming in, another death coming in." As the public ...

More babies are born preterm in Mississippi than anywhere else in the nation, and our infant mortality rate is significantly higher than the national average.