The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock will receive $40 million in federal funding aimed largely at improving maternal and infant health outcomes, the school announced Monday.

Rural areas may be more affected by adverse social and environmental factors than urban areas, Mitchell Elkind says.

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – The Community Action Team and the Vanderburgh County Health Department announced a significant decline in the rate of infant mortality over the past year. According to a ...

Medicaid expansion is linked to a 4.8% reduction in breast cancer mortality, underscoring the role of insurance in improving outcomes. Racial disparities persist, with Hispanic women seeing the ...

The implication, some say, is that when TAVI expanded to lower-risk patients in 2019, death rates rose—not so fast, say others.

In 2024, the most recent year for which data for the population is available, Native American and Alaska Native people had the highest pregnancy-related mortality ration among major demographic groups ...