has dedicated this year’s World Health Day to the theme “Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures,” spotlighting the urgent global need to prioritize maternal and newborn health. Marking its 77th ...

How maternal diabetes aggravates other conditions “The risk of complications goes up if the mother is older, overweight, has additional health conditions (such as hypertension, anaemia, or nutritional ...

“Recognizing the urgent need for change, I launched Fresno’s first Black Maternal Health Week, aligning with the national effort led by the Black Mamas Alliance,” Davies-Balch told m ...

Education, ethnicity, gender, income, and access to sexual and reproductive health (SRH) services are key to maternal health outcomes. "Reduced funding could worsen inequalities and ...

Health experts and advocates have marked World Health Day by strongly advocating for the integration of traditional medicine and improved maternal healthcare in Nigeria and across Africa.

Let’s call it what it is, she was failed by a country that has not prioritized maternal health. Failed by a system where access to care is not universal, where women often need permission or ...

Hailey Baker, a medical student at the University who worked on the study, said additional data from the CDC indicated Native people experience maternal mortality up to a year after childbirth because ...

The Executive Director of Caritas Freetown in Sierra Leone has called for immediate action to eliminate preventable maternal and newborn deaths, which are said to be the highest in the world. “We, ...

The study, published in JAMA Network Open, is one of the first to track maternal health complications during pregnancy and in the year after delivery. Pregnancy-related death rates in the United ...

reflecting systemic failures of their respective healthcare systems and a dire lack of investment in maternal health. In Pakistan, one of the biggest concerns is that despite a global decline of ...

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Public Health Implications Given the global rise in diabetes and gestational diabetes rates—driven in part by increasing maternal age and obesity—the findings carry major public health implications.