From 2016 to 2023, there was an increase in the rate of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admissions, according to a March ...

This includes non-Hispanic Black babies and infants born in Southern states, most notably Texas. The mortality rate for infants born with congenital issues rose by 5.6 percent from an expected 1. ...

Those that didn’t have defects but still died, such as from complications during birth, also rose 4.2%. But there were stark differences, namely with non-Hispanic Black infants and mothers. Black ...

North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force Report reveals that non-Hispanic Black and American Indian children face ...

Guilford County’s recent community health assessment confirms what is true across much of the U.S — race and ethnicity play ...

Among non-Hispanic Black infants, there were 11.81 deaths per 1,000 live births after the bans, versus an expected rate of 10.66 per 1,000, an increase of nearly 11%, the researchers said.

compared with white and Hispanic babies," per the Times. "Disparities in health care and outcomes exist in everything," Wilkinson said. "When you have restrictions to health care access ...

(HealthDay News) — U.S. states that adopted abortion bans have higher-than-expected infant mortality and higher fertility rates than expected, according to two studies published online Feb. 13 in the ...

Infant and Child Mortality Data from the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force Report found a huge disparity in infant ...

The 2023 Infant and Child Mortality Data from the North Carolina Child Fatality Task Force Report shows non-Hispanic Black ...

Black mothers are three times more likely to have a baby die than a white mother. "For many reasons, some that are unknown, is that our non-Hispanic, Black mothers have to undergo this diagnosis ...