"There's some good news and then there's some bad news," said Helga Fogstad, the director of health for the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF. Her team helped produce a new report that marks a ...

It turns out that pencils and books for mothers m.ight be as important as vaccines and drugs for babies in reducing child mortality in the developing world. That's because a mother's education level ...

For the first time in 25 years, child mortality rates for preventable diseases are projected to increase, after having declined for 25 years. The new estimate comes from models created by the ...

The overall death rate of children and adolescents in the United States increased 6.6% between 2020 and 2023, researchers ...

Childhood cancer is the eighth-leading cause of childhood death globally and causes more deaths than measles, tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS, with outcomes largely determined by resource availability, ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Among those aged 1 to 19, the net difference in mortality rates per 100 ...

Infants and children in the U.S. are dying at higher rates than in other wealthy, developed countries. A new study estimates that the U.S. sees 20,000 excess pediatric deaths per year relative to a ...

Provisional data from the Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) show the 2025 infant mortality rate (IMR) in Indiana is 6.3 ...

An autopsy technique developed by Spanish researchers, known as the minimally invasive tissue sampling (MITS) method, has shown that malnutrition and infectious diseases are the most common underlying ...