More pregnant women are being diagnosed with dangerously high blood pressure, which risks the life of the parent and child. Montana is one of the states improving screening and treatment.
Candi Miller’s family said she didn't visit a doctor “due to the current legislation on pregnancies and abortions.” Maternal health experts deemed her death preventable and blamed Georgia’s abortion ban.
At least two women in Georgia died after they couldn’t access legal abortions and timely medical care in their state, ProPublica has found. This is one of their stories.
Arkansas is the only holdout state that has not pursued the Biden administration's offer to extend Medicaid coverage to new moms for a year after they give birth.
The U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) and the Black Maternal Health Caucus launched a year-long Enhancing Maternal Health Initiative to address maternal mortality and maternal health disparities in partnership with mothers, grantees, community organizations, and state and local health officials.
The maternal mortality rate in the U.S. in 2022 – while still high – went back to where it was before deaths surged during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the latest CDC report.
A troubling new report from Louisiana shows how the state's abortion ban from 2022 is forcing doctors to delay or withhold medical care in ways that make pregnancy more dangerous.
The peer-reviewed study in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology says a pregnancy checkbox on national death certificates inflates the death rate.
More than half of American counties don't have an obstetrician. Family physicians, working in teams with proper support, could be the answer to the crisis in rural obstetric care.
Founded by a Black mom, the app gathers reviews by and for people of color about their experience with the health care system during pregnancy and delivery.
The women reported being verbally abused, having their requests for help go unanswered and having their physical privacy infringed upon, according to a CDC survey.
The latest case review from the state-led maternal mortality review committee outlines high rates of disparities, but notes that most pregnancy-related deaths happen up to one year postpartum.
The rate at which women in the U.S. are dying from pregnancy related causes more than doubled in recent decades. A new study, published in JAMA shows Black women and Native Americans are most at risk.
