maternal-health
5 stories tagged "maternal-health"
Kangaroo Care Was Built for Babies Fighting to Survive. A Trial Now Asks What It Does for the Ones Who Aren't
Skin-to-skin contact cut deaths among low-birth-weight newborns by a quarter. A 516-baby trial in Uttar Pradesh is now testing whether eight hours a day helps healthy, full-term infants too, and whether medicine has been underselling it.
InvestigationsAn AI Read 4.4 Million Mother-and-Baby Records and Says It Can Predict Illness. It Has Yet to Meet a Living Patient.
MoChiAgent forecasts maternal and infant disease from hospital records at a scale no clinician could read. A cautionary predecessor, Epic's sepsis tool, caught only a third of the cases it promised to catch.
InvestigationsPregnant Women's Blood Pressure Registers Every Smoke Day. A Federal Rule Lets States Erase Those Days From the Record.
On heavy smoke days, adults' systolic pressure ran nearly 4 mmHg higher; across eight southwestern states, gestational smoke exposure raised the odds of gestational hypertension 12 percent. Since 2016, regulators have won EPA approval to erase wildfire smoke from the Clean Air Act record in more tha
Brain & AgingUtah's Quiet Bet Against the Number-One Killer of New Mothers
Utah is scaling a free, CBT- and mindfulness-based perinatal depression pathway through MyChart in a state where suicide is the leading cause of maternal death.
Infectious DiseaseAmerican Infant Mortality Just Hit a Record Low. The International Comparison Is Half an Accounting Trick. The Mississippi Gap Is Not.
Preliminary CDC data put the 2025 U.S. infant mortality rate at 5.4 per 1,000 live births, a record low. The international comparison the headlines lean on is partly an artifact of how countries count. The domestic gap is not.