by Erin Backus | Jul 20, 2019 | News
Jazmine Ulloa | The Los Angeles Times California saw a decrease in the number of women who died giving birth in 2013, as the maternal mortality rate climbed across the country, according to state officials. But expectant black mothers across the state are still three...
by Erin Backus | Jul 14, 2019 | News
Aneri Pattani | The Philadelphia Inquirer This story is a collaboration between The Inquirer and WHYY Health + Science. Portia Smith’s most vivid memories of her daughter Nelly’s first year are of tears. Not the baby’s. Her own. “I would just hold her and cry all...
by Erin Backus | Jul 2, 2019 | News
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams The bill, sponsored by Rep. Ayanna Pressley and Sen. Cory Booker, follows a CDC report revealing that black and Native American women are three times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes. A group of congressional Democrats on...
by Erin Backus | Jun 22, 2019 | News
Paige Winfield Cunningham | The Washington Post Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, delivered her son yesterday in England, one of many developed countries where childbirth-related deaths have steadily fallen for decades. But the opposite is true in the United States. The...
by Erin Backus | Jun 15, 2019 | News
Roni Caryn Rabin | The New York Times African-American, Native American and Alaska Native women are about three times more likely to die from causes related to pregnancy, compared to white women in the United States. African-American, Native American and Alaska Native...
by Erin Backus | Jun 1, 2019 | News
Melissa Reynolds | The Washington Post Health-care providers have forgotten the central lesson of two millennia of gynecology. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that rates of maternal mortality in the United States — already the highest in the...
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