#infant mortality

When same-race doctors cared for Black infants, the children’s mortality rate was halved.

African-American children are twice as likely as white tots to die before their first birthday.

Study findings confirm that Black babies face inequality beginning at birth.

New studies shed light on why African Americans are twice as likely as whites to develop the most common form of dementia.

Why do Black newborns die before their first birthday more often than White infants?

Award-winning singer and actress Jennifer Hudson talks about the importance of healthy mothers, pregnancies and babies.

Researchers said high premature birth rates, insufficient prenatal care, a lack of education, poverty and race likely contributed to the surpr...

How mass incarceration—imprisoning more and more Americans—affects the public health of entire ethnic communities

Pre-existing factors in mothers’ lives—such as hypertension, obesity, smoking, diabetes, drug use, alcohol use, poor maternal health and...

Infant mortality rates confirm that many African-American babies aren’t seeing their first birthdays.