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maternal-health

2 stories tagged "maternal-health"

Brain & Aging

Utah'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 Disease

American 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.