Infant Mortality

In every case this year, parents were not following guidelines.

The syphilis rate for newborns in Pennsylvania more than tripled between 2011 and 2020.

On today’s episode of The Confluence: WHYY education reporter Mallory Falk discusses the closing arguments in the trial over the constitutionality of Pennsylvania’s system for funding K-12 schools; Jada Shirriel, chief executive officer of Healthy Start, details the organization's plans for applying federal grants to address the region’s high Black infant mortality rate; and WITF reporter Rachel McDevitt gives a personal account of spending a week with an electric vehicle.

Car seats, strollers and diapers are among the items that will be provided to pregnant women of color this weekend at a community baby shower on the…

Black babies in Allegheny County are nearly three times more likely than white babies to die before their first birthdays.Low birth weight, which is…

Black Americans are living longer lives than they were a quarter century ago.That’s one of the big takeaways from a University of Pittsburgh study…

Placing much of the blame on smoking, a study chronicling the ongoing health crisis in Appalachia has concluded that the 13-state region suffers from a…

Infant mortality in Western Pennsylvania is more than 17 percent higher than the national average, with significant disparities between white and African…

Infant mortality in Western Pennsylvania is more than 17 percent higher than the national average, with significant disparities between white and African…

Every year 40,000 babies are born in the U.S. with congenital heart defects, and parents might not be aware of their infant’s condition. Pennsylvania law…