Measles has been rising globally in recent years. There were an estimated 10.3 million cases worldwide in 2023, a 20% ...

Tennessee's Maternal Mortality Review Committee no longer publishes quarterly updates that give recommendations based off ...

Just days after giving birth, Leila Echchik feared she might not live to see her baby son grow up. Waves of pain were ...

The updates underscore the fine line that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is walking as he tries to appease ...

Public health and infectious disease experts said they were surprised and confused about the move, and questioned why the HHS ...

"You can educate these patients all you want," UConn Health's Dr. Richard Wagner said, "but if they don't have insurance, how are they getting primary care?" ...

“While it can be worrisome for patients who may be at risk for such infections, it’s important to remember that most maternal infections do not result in fetal infection,” says Elise ...

“We saw no association between the individual [diagnostic codes on medical records] indicating maternal infection and [a child’s] autism diagnosis,” senior study author Magdalena Janecka ...

Clinical standards for testing women for sexually transmitted infections vary by state, Stafford said, and the new CDC data shows that maternal syphilis rates vary widely across the country.

In principle, if it were “car accident,” that may not be maternal mortality, but if it was “infection” it might be. This yields an estimate of maternal deaths. Dividing by births yields ...