During a recent five-year period, a third of maternal deaths in the U.S. took place more than six weeks after childbirth.

For the fifth consecutive year, Alabama saw more deaths than births, a problem that an expert says will become increasingly ...

A new study found that the rates of pregnancy-related death in the U.S. increased by nearly 28% between 2018 and 2022, with ...

The study found large disparities in maternal death rates by race and ethnicity ... The highest crude rate was in Alabama (59.7 deaths per 100,000 live births,) followed by Mississippi.

says she and her colleagues observed “a large variation by state” in the rates of pregnancy-related death. Alabama had the highest at 59.7 deaths per 100,000 live births, followed by ...