No fewer than 75, 000 maternal deaths were recorded in Nigeria in 2023, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), Maternal and Reproductive Health Collective (MRHC), said yesterday.

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 ...

Maternal deaths spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, bumping the nation’s maternal mortality rate up to 33.8 deaths per 100,000 live first in June of 2022, according to the data.

With 688 maternal deaths reported in 2024, the U.S. faces one of the highest rates among wealthy nations.

With 688 maternal deaths reported in 2024, the U.S. faces one of the highest rates among wealthy nations.

Many states have their own maternal health monitoring departments and organizations, which are often funded by the CDC, to provide data to track maternal mortality across different demographics.

Maternal deaths in the United States doubled during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study from researchers at Brown University, Columbia University, and the University of ...

The introduction of the pregnancy checkbox on death certificates was responsible for most of the spike in maternal deaths in the U.S. since 2000, other than a jump attributed to the COVID-19 ...