In its new report canvasing the maternal health outcomes across Philadelphia, the city’s health department found Black women in the city had a higher rate of maternal morbidity than any other ...

Severe maternal morbidity — unexpected outcomes during labor or delivery that result in significant consequences to a woman’s health — has experienced “an alarming rise” among patients hospitalized in ...

Congenital Transmission of Chagas Disease How dangerous is Chagas disease, especially when transmitted from mother to child? This new report looks at the symptoms and diagnostic methods.

The World Health Organization (1992) has defined reproductive morbidity as consisting of three types of morbidity: obstetric, gynecologic, and contraceptive. (Obstetric morbidity is the equivalent of ...

Sixty waterborne disease outbreaks associated with splash pads were reported during 1997 to 2022, according to research published in the Dec. 5 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and ...

More than 40% of U.S. adults know someone who died by suicide, according to research published in the April 10 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality ...

Lower vaccination and booster rates may be among the underlying factors. By Mike Ives From 2010 to 2018, significantly fewer people died of H.I.V.-related causes, although survival rates for women and ...

“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs. By ...