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 child mortality rate has increased since 2019, with firearm deaths and substance use playing major roles. Among those aged 1 to 19, the net difference in mortality rates per 100,000 grew from 4 to ...

"There's some good news and then there's some bad news," said Helga Fogstad, the director of health for the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF. Her team helped produce a new report that marks a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Studies have tested whether mass antibiotic dosing can reduce childhood mortality. WHO recommended the ...

The infant mortality rate in the United States recently rose for the first time in two decades, according to a provisional report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National ...

A young mother of premature quadruplets tends to one of her newborn at the hopital in Bafoussam on September 20, 2021. - In Cameroon, to cope with a neonatal mortality which reaches 28 deaths per ...

After her maternal mortality bill died, Sen. Kamesha Mumford is requesting $20 million for a program she says would help new ...

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and several supervisors announced Monday a plan to address maternal and infant health. The ...

Exclusive: Calls for ‘urgent action’ as study also finds stark ethnic and socio-economic disparities in child mortality and consanguinity ...