Tennessee’s infant mortality rate has dipped since 2019 but remains significantly and persistently higher than the national ...

"There's some good news and then there's some bad news," said Helga Fogstad, the director of health for the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF. Her team helped produce a new report that marks a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Studies have tested whether mass antibiotic dosing can reduce childhood mortality. WHO recommended the ...

Mortality rates for children are rising at rates not seen in at least half a century, interrupting a long era of progress in shepherding America’s youth to adulthood. The death rate for children and ...

The infant mortality rate in the United States recently rose for the first time in two decades, according to a provisional report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National ...

This week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data on a tragic trend: more than 3,700 cases of congenital syphilis were reported in 2022, nearly ten times the number ...

Missouri has some of the worst rates for maternal and infant mortality in the country. State Rep. LaKeySha Bosley, a St.

UNICEF's Innocenti Report Card 19 evaluates child well-being across OECD and EU countries, ranking countries not by ...

Officials say data from the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) indicate there are fewer babies dying. IDOH says according to ...

Mississippi led the nation in infant deaths for multiple years, according to the Mississippi State Department of Health (MSDH ...

New report by the UN IGME reveals an urgent need to invest in strengthening data systems to track newborn and child health and mortality in low- and middle-income countries, two thirds of which have ...