Just over a third of eligible Arkansans participate in federal nutrition assistance aimed at low-income women and children, the second-lowest participation rate in the nation.

Just over a third of eligible Arkansans participate in federal nutrition assistance aimed at low-income women and children, the second-lowest participation rate in the nation ...

U.S. children face rising mortality and worsening health compared to peers in wealthy nations, according to a new study.

Among those aged 1 to 19, the net difference in mortality rates per 100,000 grew from 4 to just under 6 for firearm deaths.

Since 2015, France's infant mortality rate has consistently been higher than the EU average. Boys are 1.2 times more likely than girls to die before the age of one and twins or triplets are five ...

Infant mortality rates have increased in states that adopted abortion bans after the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a new study. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School o… ...

At the same time, infant mortality rates have been rising. Shefali Luthra is reproductive health reporter at the 19th, which covers gender politics and policy.

Infant mortality rates are on the rise after Roe v. Wade was overturned and states began to implement strict abortion bans, a new study finds. The study, published Monday by JAMA Pediatrics ...

Infant mortality rates were back within the normal range a year after the ruling, which may indicate that the pool of people willing to become pregnant had changed in response to the newly ...

In the past decade, the state’s infant mortality rate was the highest in 2017, with 6.3 of every 1000 babies dying. The rate fell to 5.3 in 2021 but ticked back up to 5.6 in 2022, DHS reported.

Alabama’s infant mortality rate continued a downward trend in 2022 even as infant deaths rose in the nation for the first time in nearly a decade, according to a Centers for Disease Control and ...