In 1957, for every 1,000 women, of child bearing age, 123 gave birth, but since then, the birth rate has steadily declined, ...

In 1957, for every 1,000 women, of child bearing age, 123 gave birth, but since then, the birth rate has steadily declined, ...

How the White House is looking to jumpstart the nation’s birth rate - More details are expected from White House in May ...

The administration is trying to incentivize women to have more children through scholarships, "baby bonuses," or a "National Medal of Motherhood," The New York Times reports. In other news, recent CDC ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that nationwide, the black maternal mortality rate was 69.9 deaths per 100,000 births. Hospital closures, lack of access to health care, ...

The lives of Black women—especially Black mothers—are not expendable. Black women are not a political talking point. Our ...

The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, under the guidance of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, CDC, will collect data through telephone interviews ...

Thanks in part to federal funding for newborn hearing screening, about 98% of newborns are screened for hearing loss before ...

A CDC report analyzing data from 16 U.S. sites, including Maryland, found that autism now affects 1 in 31 eight-year-olds nationwide.

Two new measles cases have been tied to an infection initially reported April 9 in a Montcalm County resident who traveled ...

The team behind CDC's U.S. Medical Eligibility Criteria for Contraceptive Use (MEC) was another casualty in the mass layoffs ...

For the first time in U.S. history, more babies are being born to women over 40 than to teenagers. That’s according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control ...