There were about 260,000 maternal deaths in 2023, down 41 per cent from the turn of the century. View on euronews ...

A new World Health Organization report found that maternal mortality rates have either increased or remained the same in nearly all regions of the world in the past five years. "In 2020, we estimate ...

ST. LOUIS — "It was like being alive in hell,” says mom Karena Hampton. “That's the only way to explain." That’s how she remembers the day she lost her baby boy half-way through her pregnancy. Karena ...

Every year, a group of Oregon health care professionals gathers for a grim exercise — reviewing every case in which a mother died during or soon after pregnancy.

ATLANTA (AP) -- U.S. women are dying from childbirth at the highest rate in decades, new government figures show. Though the risk of death is very small, experts believe increasing maternal obesity ...

A somber balloon release was held outside NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull Wednesday night, marking two years since the ...

Nursing influencer Hailey Okula died on March 29 when she went into cardiac arrest after giving birth to a son, whom she and her husband Matt welcomed through IVF. Matt shared the news of her sudden, ...

A newborn baby died after her mother delivered her using a home-birthing pool hired from “freebirth” Instagram influencer Emily Lal, a coroner has found. The findings made in the Coroners Court of ...

Casey Gould's heart stopped right after giving birth, and she recently reunited with the medical care team at Atrium Medical ...