Research presented at AANP 2025 discusses strategies for reducing maternal mortality, including addressing cardiovascular, hypertensive, and mental health conditions.

There were 283,696 neonatal deaths from perinatal complications, with the top leading causes being disorders related to short ...

Medical Services PS Dr Ouma Oluga has urged the government and health sector stakeholders to enhance collaboration and form ...

According to the World Health Organization, a late maternal death is one where an individual dies of “direct or indirect obstetric causes, more than 42 days but less than one year after ...

Anil Oza is STAT’s 2024-2025 Sharon Begley Science Reporting Fellow. You can reach Anil on Signal at aniloza.16. A new U.S. government paper documenting an increase in maternal mortality from ...

The authors caution that the data for some causes of maternal mortality remain limited. They highlighted the need for more research on maternal suicide, for which data are currently available from ...

State health department data on maternal deaths indicate that Indiana’s average maternal mortality rate for the years 2015-2019 is about 52 deaths per 100,000 births — more than twice the most ...

Maternal causes of death are grouped into categories aligned with the International Classification of Diseases-Maternal Mortality (ICD-MM) coding: abortion (relating to miscarriage, ectopic ...

The maternal mortality ratio (MMR), defined as the number of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births, was reported at 8.4, showing a significant downward trend.

The CEmONC interventions are targeted at the health-related top causes of maternal mortality and poor health outcomes among child-bearing women: postpartum haemorrhage, VVF, sepsis, and obstructed ...

She has spent years studying and researching the issue of maternal mortality. "Some of the direct causes would be related to issues with blood pressure, hypertension, hemorrhage, sepsis, infection ...