The World Health Organisation (WHO) says roughly one preventable death of a woman or a child occurs every seven seconds globally as it kicked off a year-long campaign on maternal and newborn ...

Measles infections after vaccination are rare, and there are no documented cases of healthy, fully vaccinated people dying ...

In Africa, WHO reports that 20 mothers and 120 newborns die every hour, amounting to of 178,000 maternal and 1 million newborn deaths annually. Every seven seconds, somewhere in the world, a ...

Deaths that could have been avoided have significantly risen in the United States over the last decade-plus, an analysis in ...

The family of Calvin 'CJ' Dickey Jr., who died after his first football practice with the Bucknell University team, are suing ...

While more people than ever are running marathons in the U.S., the risk of dying from a heart attack during a run has fallen ...

CJ’s parents state in the lawsuit that their son’s death was “avoidable” and “preventable,” as Bucknell University was aware that CJ carried a sickle-cell trait during NCAA-mandated ...

The AHA’s Better Health for Mothers and Babies Initiative (BHMB) offers tools and resources that hospitals and health systems ...

Besides, other risks for mothers and newborns include inadequate 24/7 quality services at Upazila level, inadequate postnatal care at primary healthcare level and unregulated private sector, leading ...

New findings indicate that while the rate of marathon runners who suffer cardiac arrests remained unchanged, their chance for survival is twice what it was in the past. Now, far fewer marathon runners ...