Data released this week shows infant mortality rates in Kalamazoo County between 2022 and 2024 were the lowest in the state and the county’s Black infant mortality at its lowest on record ...

For the first time in two decades, the United States saw a rise in the infant mortality rate. According to new data provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate reached 5.6 ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - A report released Monday says that Tennessee has some of the worst infant and maternal death rates in the country. March of Dimes said that the U.S. is not doing enough to ...

State Health Commissioner Lindsay Weaver, right, presents to the interim public health committee on Sept. 25, 2025. (Whitney Downard/Indiana Capital Chronicle) As Indiana’s maternal and infant ...

Infant mortality rates in the United States increased last year for the first time in two decades, according to new federal provisional data. For the report, published early Wednesday by the Centers ...

There’s good and bad news when it comes to infant mortality in the United States. Infant mortality, or the death of a baby before his or her 1st birthday, has declined in recent years across the ...

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JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Mississippi is taking steps to address its high maternal and infant mortality rates. The Mississippi Hospital Association (MHA) partnered with the Mississippi Public Health ...

The top five concerns identified through the health assessment are mental health and wellbeing, access to health care, ...

Kalamazoo County is now one of the safest places in Michigan to give birth, for all babies.