Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Severe maternal morbidity rates increased between 2008 and 2018 for almost every racial and ethnic group. Births ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Women with disabilities had higher severe maternal morbidity rates per 10,000 deliveries vs. women without.

The 2014 Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act was not associated with a reduction in rates of severe maternal morbidity (SMM) during delivery hospitalizations. Researchers conducted a ...

Gestational carriers, also known as surrogates, experience an elevated risk of severe maternal morbidity and adverse pregnancy outcomes compared to women who conceive naturally or through in vitro ...

Hypertensive disorders of pregnancy, chronic hypertension, and obesity are driving up rates of severe maternal morbidity in the US, a retrospective cohort study has found. “These findings highlight ...

A new study reveals a troubling rise in severe maternal health issues and birth complications in Illinois from 2016 to 2023, closely linked to increases in chronic health conditions affecting ...

Black women in Philadelphia are twice as likely to have unexpected complications while giving birth than women of other races and ethnicities, according to a new report. Severe maternal morbidity – ...

BOSTON — The volume of people experiencing complications from pregnancy or delivery in Massachusetts nearly doubled from 2011 to 2020, according to new data released Wednesday by the Department of ...