Average age also increased for first-time moms, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The team responsible for updating the CDC’s “contraception bible,” which advises doctors on birth control safety, was ...

First-time mothers are older, teen pregnancies are down, and Americans are rethinking when to start families. Women in the ...

New CDC data shows the average age of US mothers reached 29.6 in 2023, with significant differences across geographic and ...

Wisconsin health officials say RFK Jr.'s recent pullback of COVID-19 vaccine advice for kids and pregnant women isn’t based ...

HHS did not answer written questions about Monarez’s nomination, her current role at the CDC or her salary. An employee ...

How are we going to implement these things…[when] you can’t even say the words ‘disparity,’ ‘inequity,’ ‘women,’ ‘race’?” ...

Dr. Danielle Ely, co-author of the report and a health statistician at the NCHS ... 3.4 deaths per 1,000 live births for Asian women, per the CDC data. Infants born to American Indian and Alaska ...

The app has been downloaded more than 440,000 times, according to the CDC. Now, the work of that team has been halted as part of the reduction of the Women’s Health and Fertility Branch of the ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will no longer recommend routine COVID-19 shots for healthy children and pregnant women, Health and ... of any clinical data to support the ...

Key Takeaways Pregnant women have worse health care in states that ban or restrict abortionThey are more often uninsured and ...

The nation’s top public health agency ... A subtle update to a CDC page on the adult immunization schedule indicated a similar change for the recommendation for pregnant women, excluding them ...