VIJAYAWADA: Health Minister Y Satya Kumar Yadav announced on social media that the State has made significant progress in reducing Maternal Mortality Rate (MMR) ...

Nigeria’s government launched an initiative in 2024 offering free emergency caesarean sections to poor and vulnerable women, ...

The declining mortality rate in Kerala has increased the pension liability of the government, Fisheries Minister Saji Cherian has said. He was speaking at a meeting of the Kerala NGO Union in ...

A new study shows Ohio’s struggle to improve infant and maternal mortality has roots in systemic issues like health care ...

The Greater Accra Regional Health Directorate (GRHD) is struggling to meet the global maternal health ratio of less than 70 ...

Rates of fatal drug overdoses are higher than expected in most states, despite a 14.5% decrease in the year leading up to June 2024.

Non-Hispanic Black populations face the highest risk of death from chronic kidney disease (CKD)–associated cardiac arrest, a ...

Decline in mortality rates seen from 1990 to 2022 for women aged 40 to 74 years for all cohorts except Asian women.

Trees and parks not only add open, pleasant spaces to cities but also boost human health in multiple ways, from filtering air ...

France has long prided itself on its healthcare system and quality of life, but recent reports reveal a sobering reality: infant mortality rates in the country are stagnating, highlighting a pressing ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers struggled to grasp the rate of the virus's spread and the number of ...

Black mothers are three times as likely as white women to die in childbirth, and Black fetuses and infants die at rates far ...