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Li Zhou is a former politics reporter at Vox, where she covers Congress and elections. Previously, she was a tech policy reporter at Politico and an editorial fellow at the Atlantic. An apparent spike ...

Clare Ath is senior policy analyst for Human Coalition, one of the largest pro-life organizations in the nation that operates a network of telecare and brick-and-mortar women's care clinics across the ...

Maternal deaths in Washington rose between 2021-2022, and most pregnancy-related deaths were preventable, according to the ...

MIAMI - The racial gap in maternal mortality is widening, with Black women being the only racial group to see an increase in pregnancy-related deaths between 2022 and 2023, according to new data from ...

The World Health Organization defined a maternal death as "the death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy, irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy ...

In 2020, 861 U.S. mothers died, an increase of 14% from 754 deaths in 2019. Maternal mortality rates in the U.S. rose during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic and racial disparities that existed ...

DOH says behavioral health accounted for nearly half of pregnancy-related deaths, and mothers in rural areas experience ...