Tag: infant mortality

Amid Suffering in 2023, Humans Still Made Progress

As the year ends, civilians are dying at a staggering pace in Gaza and the genocide in Darfur may be resuming. A man charged with 91 felonies is leading in American presidential polls, and our carbon emissions risk cooking our planet. But something else is also true: In some ways, 2023 may still have been […]

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A Simple Way to Save Premature Babies

How It Works: Doctors wait to cut the cord. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists already recommends delaying clamping by 30 to 60 seconds for both full-term and preterm newborns. Preterm babies are those born before 37 weeks of gestation. In preterm infants, delayed clamping leads to improved circulation, less need for blood transfusions […]

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Infant Deaths Have Risen for the First Time in 20 Years

The number of American babies who died before their first birthdays rose last year, significantly increasing the nation’s infant mortality rate for the first time in two decades, according to provisional figures released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics. The spike is a somber manifestation of the state of maternal and child health […]

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Five Ways to Tackle The Black Maternal Health Crisis

This year, the Black maternal health crisis took center stage at The Root Institute. We sat down with some of the leading experts in this field — including Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, Dr. Myechia Minter-Jordan, Dr. Uché Blackstock, and Oriaku Njoku to tackle one of the greatest threats to Black pregnant people, the state of our […]

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The Root Institute: 5 Ways to Tackle The Black Maternal Health Crisis

This year, the Black maternal health crisis took center stage at The Root Institute. We sat down with some of the leading experts in this field — including Dr. Joia Crear-Perry, President of the National Birth Equity Collaborative, Myechia Minter-Jordan, MD, MBA, CEO of CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, Dr. Uché Blackstock, Founding CEO of […]

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