Women who underwent in vitro fertilization or intrauterine insemination were more likely to experience maternal morbidity compared with unassisted pregnancies, according to findings published in ...

Preterm birth―defined as delivery before the 37th week of pregnancy—is one of the leading causes of infant deaths in the United States. Babies born prematurely are also at an increased risk of having ...

Inside JPS Health Network’s auditorium over 50 nurses, physicians and JPS board members came to support its TeamBirth kickoff event Monday afternoon. TeamBirth is a communication system to provide ...

The Shapiro Administration has announced a comprehensive strategy to improve maternal health outcomes in Pennsylvania. This ...

1 Cardiovascular (CV) diseases such as CHD are major causes of maternal morbidity and mortality ... which remains at approximately 0.15% in the United States. 2,3 Neonatal complication rates reflect ...

Rate of severe maternal morbidity 292.1 per 10,000 live births among those with OUD, with variation seen across states.

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According to a new study, homicide and suicide are the leading causes of maternal death in the US. Yet, these deaths are ...

Severe maternal morbidity (SMM) rates are five times higher when preeclampsia develops in pregnancy, regardless of chronic hypertension status. Patients with uncomplicated chronic hypertension who ...

The rate of opioid use disorder (OUD) is high in Medicaid-enrolled pregnant women, and they have a high rate of severe maternal morbidity ... in Medicaid in 47 states with 108,975 deliveries ...