Rep. Michelle Salzman has established a task force to help ensure mothers have healthier pregnancies and babies.

"Listen to moms," Devin Bailey-Nicholas says. "When we sit down and really listen to their concerns, whether they've had a ...

Thousands of early births have been avoided with improved outcomes for women and babies, according to analysis of a ...

Fertility rates began falling in most of the world starting in the last century. By the 1970s, the U.S. had dipped under the ...

Nakayokawa Elementary School, closed three years ago, is seen in the remote village of Yokawa on February 29, 2024 in Miki, Japan. In 1970, a woman in Mexico might have expected to have seven children ...

In their new book After the Spike, demographers Dean Spears and Michael Geruso make the counterintuitive case for worrying less about overpopulation and more about depopulation. Comparing it to ...

In states with abortion bans, birth rates increased after Roe was overturned. Infant mortality rates also rose in these same states. The greatest differences were seen among marginalized women. In 14 ...

Birth and fertility rates have long been a major talking point in the United States which, along with many major economies, is facing population decline. America's fertility rate is now projected to ...

After pandemic disruptions, Karnataka’s birth and death registrations stabilise, with over 10 lakh births, 100% registration ...

Iran's number of births is set to fall below 1 million a year for the first time, while its death rate continues to go up, Iran's Health Ministry warned. Alireza Raisi said that "mortality will soon ...