The Mississippi health department declared a public health emergency Thursday over rising infant mortality rates in the state. There were 9.7 deaths for every 1,000 births in Mississippi in 2024, the ...

A recent study by Marta Fernández-Viejo and her colleagues from the laboratory of Human Evolution of the University of Burgos and University of León, published in Childhood in the Past, examined the ...

Since 2014, over 3,500 babies in the state have died before their 1st birthday. Mississippi state health officials have announced a public health emergency due to the state's rising infant mortality ...

Dr. Céline Gounder, an internist, epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, is a CBS News medical contributor as well as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News.

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Teara Coates, 21, touches her four-day-old baby, Tayden Coates, in the incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University Mississippi Medical College on Sept. 30, 2012. Teara Coates, 21, ...

The Mississippi State Department of Health has declared a public health emergency after it "could not wait to take action" in response to rising infant mortality rates throughout the state, according ...

ESCAMBIA COUNTY, Fla. -- An infant girl has made a remarkable recovery after being attacked by the family dog in Escambia County earlier this month. The incident happened on Aug. 6 at a home on W 9 ...

COMING UP. >> SEE YOU AGAIN IN JUST A BIT, DAVID. THANK YOU. MORE INFANTS ARE DYING IN MISSISSIPPI THAN AT ANY OTHER TIME IN THE PAST DECADE. >> THE MISSISSIPPI DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH JUST DECLARED THE ...

RIGHT NOW, A COUPLE IN WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA IS FACING CHARGES AFTER AUTHORITIES SAY A BABY WAS HOSPITALIZED WITH SEVERE INJURIES. THE POLK COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE SAYS DEPUTIES ARRESTED MAGGIE ...

Mississippi health officials have declared a state of emergency over the rate of infant mortality in the state Getty Mississippi health officials have declared a state of emergency over the rate of ...