The Commonwealth Fund’s updated July 2025 brief on maternal mortality highlights how systemic disparities, Medicaid coverage ...

The infant mortality national rate dropped to about 5.5 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2024, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted Thursday.

By 2013, rates of maternal mortality and morbidity and pre-term births had more than doubled and now are twice that of most high-income nations (Roeder, 2020). More than half of these deaths and near ...