Another reader felt that the biggest benefits of a falling human population will be to the planet itself: “Less pollution, less deforestation, less mass extinctions of other species, etc., etc.

The Vanderburgh County Health Department attributes the improvement essentially to active intervention in lieu of data collection alone.

A decade ago, Hamilton County had one of the highest rates of infant mortality in the country. But since then, the county has made significant gains. It’s reduced the Black infant mortality rate to ...

Infant mortality rates have increased in states that adopted abortion bans after the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, according to a new study. Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of ...

Ohio’s infant mortality rate has remained stubbornly high for years. That’s especially discouraging, even shameful, in a state that’s home to such distinguished health care systems as the Cleveland ...

Pensacola Republican Rep. Alex Andrade, who chairs the House health care budget writing panel, said the structure is ...

The healthier the Mom, the healthier the baby. The Mississippi State Department of Health is combating infant mortality through education.