American Babies Are Less Likely to Survive Their First Year Than Babies in Other Rich Countries

Child mortality in the U.S., defined as deaths of children age 1 to 19, has likewise seen slower declines than in other ...
ABC7 San Francisco

CDC report finds infant mortality rate has risen for the 1st time in 2 decades

Infant mortality rates in the United States increased last year for the first time in two decades, according to new federal provisional data. For the report, published early Wednesday by the Centers ...
News Medical

Infant mortality rate rises sharply when mothers experience pregnancy-associated death

A new study found that infant mortality rates in Massachusetts were 14 times higher among babies whose mother experienced a pregnancy-associated death than among babies whose mother survived pregnancy ...
AOL

Study: Sudden unexplained infant death rates show steep rise among Black babies in 2020

A new study has found that, amid record low infant mortality rates in 2020, rates of sudden infant death syndrome, known as SIDS, increased for the first time in five years, and there was a sharp ...