#maternalmortality — Public Fediverse posts

A literature review and data analysis reveals that difficult childbirth (dystocia) occurs in many wild and domesticated mammal species, and at rates that equal or exceed those in humans. This may result from a natural selection tradeoff between offspring size and dystocia incidence.

Summary: https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-challenge-a-long-held-belief-about-why-human-childbirth-is-so-difficult/

Original paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/brv.70174

#Science #Childbirth #WomensHealth #Evolution #MaternalMortality

https://www.europesays.com/uk/953936/ Donald Trump ‘falls asleep with face drooping’ during Oval Office event | World | News #DonaldTrump #MaternalMortality #News #OvalOffice #USIranCeasefire #Women'sHealth #World

The New Orleans program doing house calls for postpartum mothers: ‘For many women, you fall off a cliff’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/family-connects-new-orleans-mothers-postpartum-house-calls #NewOrleans #Louisiana #ParentsAndParenting #MaternalMortality #Pregnancy #ChildrensHealth #Society #Women #Health #Family

https://www.europesays.com/africa/189295/ Bayelsa Doctor Dies After Giving Birth to Triplets #Bayelsa #BayelsaState #ChildbirthComplications #DoctorDies #DrEreOgbachi #EreOgbachi #FederalMedicalCentreYenagoa #FMCYenagoa #MaternalMortality #MedicalDoctor #MedicalNews #NDUTH #NigerDeltaUniversity #NigerDeltaUniversityTeachingHospital #Nigeria #NigerianMedicalAssociation #triplets #Yenagoa

https://www.europesays.com/africa/154969/ Kano quintuplets mother dies after giving birth #childbirth #ChildbirthComplications #HafsatuYusuf #kano #KanoHealthMinistry #KanoNews #KanoState #KanoStateMinistryOfHealth #MaternalMortality #MurtalaMuhammadSpecialistHospital #NewbornCare #Newborns #Nigeria #PostpartumHemorrhage #quintuplets

https://www.europesays.com/uk/801155/ Two pregnant IDPs die in Benue amid poor healthcare #Agagbe #BenueState #GwerWest #Health #Healthcare #HealthcareCrisis #HumanitarianCrisis #IDPCamp #InternallyDisplacedPersons #MaternalMortality #poverty #SEMA #UK #UnitedKingdom

Arkansas now the only state in the country to withhold Medicaid from new moms

Clinging tight to its rock-bottom ranking in maternal health and mortality, Arkansas earned an odious new superlative this…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #abortion #ArkansasAdvocatesforChildrenandFamilies #Health #maternalmortality #Medicaid #Newsandopinion #SarahSanders
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/483288/

Arkansas now the only state in the country to withhold Medicaid from new moms

Clinging tight to its rock-bottom ranking in maternal health and mortality, Arkansas earned an odious new superlative this…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Healthcare #abortion #ArkansasAdvocatesforChildrenandFamilies #Health #maternalmortality #Medicaid #Newsandopinion #SarahSanders
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/483288/

@georgetakei This is #institutionalracism . The rates of maternal and infant mortality are much higher for BIPOC women than white women. And way too high overall - higher than any other developed nation - but disproportionately so. It’s #eugenics .
#racism #MaternalInfantHealth #maternalmortality #infantMortality #rfkjr #Healthcare

@georgetakei This is #institutionalracism . The rates of maternal and infant mortality are much higher for BIPOC women than white women. And way too high overall - higher than any other developed nation - but disproportionately so. It’s #eugenics .
#racism #MaternalInfantHealth #maternalmortality #infantMortality #rfkjr #Healthcare

@georgetakei This is #institutionalracism . The rates of maternal and infant mortality are much higher for BIPOC women than white women. And way too high overall - higher than any other developed nation - but disproportionately so. It’s #eugenics .
#racism #MaternalInfantHealth #maternalmortality #infantMortality #rfkjr #Healthcare

@georgetakei This is #institutionalracism . The rates of maternal and infant mortality are much higher for BIPOC women than white women. And way too high overall - higher than any other developed nation - but disproportionately so. It’s #eugenics .
#racism #MaternalInfantHealth #maternalmortality #infantMortality #rfkjr #Healthcare

@georgetakei This is #institutionalracism . The rates of maternal and infant mortality are much higher for BIPOC women than white women. And way too high overall - higher than any other developed nation - but disproportionately so. It’s #eugenics .
#racism #MaternalInfantHealth #maternalmortality #infantMortality #rfkjr #Healthcare

High youth death rates are an ‘emerging crisis’, global health study warns https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/oct/12/global-burden-disease-study-high-youth-death-rates-drugs-alcohol-suicide-emerging-crisis #Infectiousdiseases #Globaldevelopment #Maternalmortality #Medicalresearch #Lifeexpectancy #Globalhealth #Mentalhealth #Airpollution #Youngpeople #Environment #Worldnews #Society #Alcohol #Science #Smoking #Obesity #Health #Drugs #Women

Unsafe abortions and no antenatal care: aid cuts hit women hardest in one of Africa’s poorest countries https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/05/malawi-global-health-development-us-aid-cuts-tb-contraception-women #Contraceptionandfamilyplanning #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Infantandchildmortality #Trumpadministration #Globaldevelopment #Maternalmortality #USforeignpolicy #Maternalhealth #Globalhealth #Tuberculosis #Lifeandstyle #Worldnews #Society #USnews #Health #USAID #Women

Unsafe abortions and no antenatal care: aid cuts hit women hardest in one of Africa’s poorest countries https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/05/malawi-global-health-development-us-aid-cuts-tb-contraception-women #Contraceptionandfamilyplanning #Vaccinesandimmunisation #Infantandchildmortality #Trumpadministration #Globaldevelopment #Maternalmortality #USforeignpolicy #Maternalhealth #Globalhealth #Tuberculosis #Lifeandstyle #Worldnews #Society #USnews #Health #USAID #Women

Mississippi declares emergency over high infant mortality rates, the highest in the nation. The state never expanded Medicaid. It usually ranks number one in poverty.
Also has the highest maternal mortality rate in the US, worse than Iraq and just a little better than Guatemala.
#mississippi
#redstates
#infantmortality
#maternalmortality
#tatereeves
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/health/infant-mortality-public-health-emergency-mississippi

Mississippi declares emergency over high infant mortality rates, the highest in the nation. The state never expanded Medicaid. It usually ranks number one in poverty.
Also has the highest maternal mortality rate in the US, worse than Iraq and just a little better than Guatemala.
#mississippi
#redstates
#infantmortality
#maternalmortality
#tatereeves
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/health/infant-mortality-public-health-emergency-mississippi

Mississippi declares emergency over high infant mortality rates, the highest in the nation. The state never expanded Medicaid. It usually ranks number one in poverty.
Also has the highest maternal mortality rate in the US, worse than Iraq and just a little better than Guatemala.
#mississippi
#redstates
#infantmortality
#maternalmortality
#tatereeves
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/health/infant-mortality-public-health-emergency-mississippi

Mississippi declares emergency over high infant mortality rates, the highest in the nation. The state never expanded Medicaid. It usually ranks number one in poverty.
Also has the highest maternal mortality rate in the US, worse than Iraq and just a little better than Guatemala.
#mississippi
#redstates
#infantmortality
#maternalmortality
#tatereeves
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/health/infant-mortality-public-health-emergency-mississippi

Mississippi declares emergency over high infant mortality rates, the highest in the nation. The state never expanded Medicaid. It usually ranks number one in poverty.
Also has the highest maternal mortality rate in the US, worse than Iraq and just a little better than Guatemala.
#mississippi
#redstates
#infantmortality
#maternalmortality
#tatereeves
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/22/health/infant-mortality-public-health-emergency-mississippi

‘Russia is targeting us deliberately’: how attacks on maternity hospitals fuelled a birth crisis in Ukraine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/21/russia-ukraine-war-childbirth-demographics-targeting-attacks-maternity-hospitals-kharkiv-sloviansk-khersonbirth-crisis #Infantandchildmortality #Globaldevelopment #Maternalmortality #Globalhealth #Lifeandstyle #Childbirth #Worldnews #Children #Ukraine #Society #Russia #Europe #Health #Women #Women

‘Russia is targeting us deliberately’: how attacks on maternity hospitals fuelled a birth crisis in Ukraine https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/21/russia-ukraine-war-childbirth-demographics-targeting-attacks-maternity-hospitals-kharkiv-sloviansk-khersonbirth-crisis #Infantandchildmortality #Globaldevelopment #Maternalmortality #Globalhealth #Lifeandstyle #Childbirth #Worldnews #Children #Ukraine #Society #Russia #Europe #Health #Women #Women

US destruction of contraceptives denies 1.4m African women and girls lifesaving care, NGO says https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/us-destruction-contraceptives-denies-african-women-girls-lifesaving-care-ngo #Contraceptionandfamilyplanning #Trumpadministration #Reproductiverights #Maternalmortality #Teenagepregnancy #Maternalhealth #Pregnancy #Worldnews #Abortion #Africa #USnews #Health #Women #USAID

Vulnerable women are being failed by the UK:

"Between 2014 and 2022, 1,451 women died during pregnancy or within a year of giving birth, with 420 of these women having been in contact with children’s social care services, according to analysis of data from the maternal, newborn, and infant clinical outcome review programme provided by MBBRACE-UK."

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/10/a-third-of-uk-women-who-died-during-or-after-pregnancy-known-to-childrens-services-study-finds

#MaternalDeath #MaternalMortality #ViolenceAgainstWomen #PregnancyRisks #SocialCare #UKHealthcare

Vulnerable women are being failed by the UK:

"Between 2014 and 2022, 1,451 women died during pregnancy or within a year of giving birth, with 420 of these women having been in contact with children’s social care services, according to analysis of data from the maternal, newborn, and infant clinical outcome review programme provided by MBBRACE-UK."

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/10/a-third-of-uk-women-who-died-during-or-after-pregnancy-known-to-childrens-services-study-finds

#MaternalDeath #MaternalMortality #ViolenceAgainstWomen #PregnancyRisks #SocialCare #UKHealthcare

Vulnerable women are being failed by the UK:

"Between 2014 and 2022, 1,451 women died during pregnancy or within a year of giving birth, with 420 of these women having been in contact with children’s social care services, according to analysis of data from the maternal, newborn, and infant clinical outcome review programme provided by MBBRACE-UK."

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/10/a-third-of-uk-women-who-died-during-or-after-pregnancy-known-to-childrens-services-study-finds

#MaternalDeath #MaternalMortality #ViolenceAgainstWomen #PregnancyRisks #SocialCare #UKHealthcare

Vulnerable women are being failed by the UK:

"Between 2014 and 2022, 1,451 women died during pregnancy or within a year of giving birth, with 420 of these women having been in contact with children’s social care services, according to analysis of data from the maternal, newborn, and infant clinical outcome review programme provided by MBBRACE-UK."

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/10/a-third-of-uk-women-who-died-during-or-after-pregnancy-known-to-childrens-services-study-finds

#MaternalDeath #MaternalMortality #ViolenceAgainstWomen #PregnancyRisks #SocialCare #UKHealthcare

Vulnerable women are being failed by the UK:

"Between 2014 and 2022, 1,451 women died during pregnancy or within a year of giving birth, with 420 of these women having been in contact with children’s social care services, according to analysis of data from the maternal, newborn, and infant clinical outcome review programme provided by MBBRACE-UK."

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/jul/10/a-third-of-uk-women-who-died-during-or-after-pregnancy-known-to-childrens-services-study-finds

#MaternalDeath #MaternalMortality #ViolenceAgainstWomen #PregnancyRisks #SocialCare #UKHealthcare

The Road to Rural Health explores obstacles to the successful prevention and treatment of heart disease, treatment of mental health concerns, and reduction of maternal health mortality rates in rural America. The series also focuses on the challenges faced by understaffed rural hospitals and health clinics and highlights innovative efforts to promote better health outcomes.

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https://journeysinfilm.org/news/healthcare-matters-storytelling-education-and-partnerships-for-change/

#CommunityHealth #PublicHealth #HealthEducation #PublicEducation #HeartHealth #MentalHealth #MaternalHealth #MaternalMortality

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on #DrugUse, #MaternalMortality, #ClimateChange and More
The survival of that data is now in doubt, as a result of the #DOGE's comprehensive assault on the federal bureaucracy. By slashing teams that gather critical data, the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working — and created a black hole of information whose consequences could ripple out for decades.
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-doge-data-collection-hhs-epa-cdc-maternal-mortality

Of the ~25M #women who receive #ContraceptiveCare annually, 18% receive it from publicly supported #clinics, including #TitleX-funded centers, Baden said. They include women who are #LowIncome or #underinsured.

In 2019, during #Trump’s first term, his admin altered the half-century-old program banning clinics receiving Title X aid from referring patients for abortions.

#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #AbortionIsHealthcare #law

Of the ~25M #women who receive #ContraceptiveCare annually, 18% receive it from publicly supported #clinics, including #TitleX-funded centers, Baden said. They include women who are #LowIncome or #underinsured.

In 2019, during #Trump’s first term, his admin altered the half-century-old program banning clinics receiving Title X aid from referring patients for abortions.

#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #AbortionIsHealthcare #law

Of the ~25M #women who receive #ContraceptiveCare annually, 18% receive it from publicly supported #clinics, including #TitleX-funded centers, Baden said. They include women who are #LowIncome or #underinsured.

In 2019, during #Trump’s first term, his admin altered the half-century-old program banning clinics receiving Title X aid from referring patients for abortions.

#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #AbortionIsHealthcare #law

Of the ~25M #women who receive #ContraceptiveCare annually, 18% receive it from publicly supported #clinics, including #TitleX-funded centers, Baden said. They include women who are #LowIncome or #underinsured.

In 2019, during #Trump’s first term, his admin altered the half-century-old program banning clinics receiving Title X aid from referring patients for abortions.

#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #AbortionIsHealthcare #law

Of the ~25M #women who receive #ContraceptiveCare annually, 18% receive it from publicly supported #clinics, including #TitleX-funded centers, Baden said. They include women who are #LowIncome or #underinsured.

In 2019, during #Trump’s first term, his admin altered the half-century-old program banning clinics receiving Title X aid from referring patients for abortions.

#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #AbortionIsHealthcare #law

“President #Trump & #ElonMusk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping #health care access from people nationwide, & not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” Johnson said in a stmnt.

Federally funded programs such as #TitleX are crucial in providing access to #affordable #ReproductiveHealthcare, said Kelly Baden, VP for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, which supports #AbortionRights.

#FammilyPlanning #MaternalMortality #BirthControl #law #USpol

“President #Trump & #ElonMusk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping #health care access from people nationwide, & not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” Johnson said in a stmnt.

Federally funded programs such as #TitleX are crucial in providing access to #affordable #ReproductiveHealthcare, said Kelly Baden, VP for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, which supports #AbortionRights.

#FammilyPlanning #MaternalMortality #BirthControl #law #USpol

“President #Trump & #ElonMusk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping #health care access from people nationwide, & not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” Johnson said in a stmnt.

Federally funded programs such as #TitleX are crucial in providing access to #affordable #ReproductiveHealthcare, said Kelly Baden, VP for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, which supports #AbortionRights.

#FammilyPlanning #MaternalMortality #BirthControl #law #USpol

“President #Trump & #ElonMusk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping #health care access from people nationwide, & not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” Johnson said in a stmnt.

Federally funded programs such as #TitleX are crucial in providing access to #affordable #ReproductiveHealthcare, said Kelly Baden, VP for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, which supports #AbortionRights.

#FammilyPlanning #MaternalMortality #BirthControl #law #USpol

“President #Trump & #ElonMusk are pushing their dangerous political agenda, stripping #health care access from people nationwide, & not giving a second thought to the devastation they will cause,” Johnson said in a stmnt.

Federally funded programs such as #TitleX are crucial in providing access to #affordable #ReproductiveHealthcare, said Kelly Baden, VP for public policy at the Guttmacher Institute, which supports #AbortionRights.

#FammilyPlanning #MaternalMortality #BirthControl #law #USpol

#Trump admin to cut funds to #PlannedParenthood

The #nonprofit said that 9 of its affiliates received notice that funding would be withheld under a program known as #TitleX, which has supported #healthcare services for the #poor since 1970.

#FamilyPlanning #ReproductiveHealthcare #ReproductiveRights #MaternalMortality #CancerScreenings #BirthControl #AbortionIsHealthcare #law #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/trump-administration-freeze-family-planning-funds-planned-parenthood-2025-04-01/

‘A scary time to be a scientist’: how medical research cuts will hurt the maternal mortality crisis https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/15/trump-medical-research-funding-maternal-mortality #Trumpadministration #Maternalmortality #USdomesticpolicy #Women'shealth #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Pregnancy #Society #Health #USnews #Women

Are #Abortion #Bans Across America Causing #Deaths? The States That Passed Them Are Doing Little to Find Out. #WomensHealthcare n states with abortion bans, ProPublica has found, pregnant women have bled to #death, succumbed to fatal #infections and wound up in morgues with what medical examiners recorded were “products of conception” still in their bodies. https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-bans-deaths-state-maternal-mortality-committees #privacy #healthcare #civilliberties #legalresearch #states #healthcare #miscarriage #maternalmortality

Truth. THEY LITERALLY COULD NOT CARE LESS. #SmashThePatriarchy #MaternalMortality #AbortionSavesLives https://www.salon.com/2024/12/02/dont-care-if-women-from-abortion-bans--but-they-dont-want-you-to-know-about-it/

Truth. THEY LITERALLY COULD NOT CARE LESS. #SmashThePatriarchy #MaternalMortality #AbortionSavesLives https://www.salon.com/2024/12/02/dont-care-if-women-from-abortion-bans--but-they-dont-want-you-to-know-about-it/

Truth. THEY LITERALLY COULD NOT CARE LESS. #SmashThePatriarchy #MaternalMortality #AbortionSavesLives https://www.salon.com/2024/12/02/dont-care-if-women-from-abortion-bans--but-they-dont-want-you-to-know-about-it/

Truth. THEY LITERALLY COULD NOT CARE LESS. #SmashThePatriarchy #MaternalMortality #AbortionSavesLives https://www.salon.com/2024/12/02/dont-care-if-women-from-abortion-bans--but-they-dont-want-you-to-know-about-it/

Truth. THEY LITERALLY COULD NOT CARE LESS. #SmashThePatriarchy #MaternalMortality #AbortionSavesLives https://www.salon.com/2024/12/02/dont-care-if-women-from-abortion-bans--but-they-dont-want-you-to-know-about-it/

Is it safe to have a child? Americans rethink family planning ahead of Trump’s return https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/30/family-planning-trump #Trumpadministration #Parentsandparenting #Reproductiverights #Maternalmortality #Climatecrisis #Reproduction #DonaldTrump #Environment #USpolitics #Pregnancy #Abortion #Children #USnews #Women