Infant mortality rates have increased in states that adopted abortion bans after the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a new study. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of ...

The Mississippi State Board of Health met to discuss several topics on Wednesday, including maternal and infant mortality. In ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The state of Mississippi recently declared a public health emergency on an issue that is tragic for many families - infant mortality. The state has some of the highest rates in the nation. NPR's Katia ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest Epidemiological Bulletin issued by the Ministry of Public Health for the last week of 2025 registered 26 infant ...