The National Center for Health Statistics recently released complete birth data and provisional maternal and infant mortality data from 2022—the first data reflecting the aftermath of the initial ...

(CNN) — For the first time in more than two decades, the United States saw an increase in infant mortality rates in 2022. According to a report released Wednesday by the National Center for Health ...

Once a niche method of delivering healthcare, telehealth use spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, aided by relaxed regulations aiming to preserve access to care during the public health emergency.

Hundreds of women in the United States die from complications related to pregnancy, childbirth and the time after giving birth each year, and the country’s high maternal death rate makes it an outlier ...

Preliminary numbers show a nearly 4 percent decrease in deaths from opioids, largely fentanyl, but a rise in deaths from meth and cocaine. By Jan Hoffman Overdose deaths in the United States declined ...

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This story has been updated to include additional comment from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics' most recent report put the U.S. maternal ...