A lurid tidbit of historical trivia making the social media rounds since the late 2000s supposedly reveals a shocking example of racist cruelty in the United States' past, namely profit-seeking white ...
Everything that Lena Burgess feared would go wrong did when she delivered her first child in May. She was diagnosed with preeclampsia during labor, a pregnancy-related high blood pressure disorder, ...
Not being heard, not being taken seriously and being misunderstood by health care providers often describes a routine medical visit for many Black parents. For Black parents of young children, that ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - It should be one of the happiest times in a woman’s life, but for some it can be one of the most life-threatening. Black women have the highest maternal mortality ...
Fewer Black babies live to see their first birthday in Ohio when compared to white babies, the Ohio Department of Health’s most recent report shows. Ohio’s overall infant mortality rate was 7.0 in ...
Every August, for the past 22 years, Alesha Martin-Lane has mourned the loss of her daughter Tayler, who died at just five ...
In Ohio, the rates are even worse: Black women here are more than five times as likely to die from pregnancy-related complications as compared with women from other states. In 2020 in Cleveland — the ...
The sudden unexplained infant death (SUID) rate for Black babies in 2020 was the highest it has been since 2017 Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as ...
RALEIGH, N.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - It should be one of the happiest times in a woman’s life, but for some it can be one of the most life-threatening. Black women have the highest maternal mortality ...