Two chemicals used to make plastic more flexible are linked to nearly 2 million premature births and the deaths of 74,000 newborns worldwide in 2018, according to a new study. A baby is considered ...

The Mississippi Department of Health recently declared a public health emergency in response to rising infant deaths in an unusual move to help speed up efforts to cover gaps in care. Lowering the ...

Mississippi health officials have declared a public health emergency after releasing data showing the state's infant mortality rate has risen to its highest level in more than a decade. In Mississippi ...

Teara Coates, 21, touches her four-day-old baby, Tayden Coates, in the incubator in the neonatal intensive care unit at the University Mississippi Medical College on Sept. 30, 2012. Senior ...

Reducing the rates at which mothers and infants die and eliminating inequities in survival are possible only when a strategic combination of evidence-based programs and community-based supports is ...

Infant mortality rates are on the rise after Roe v. Wade was overturned and states began to implement strict abortion bans, a new study finds. The study, published Monday by JAMA Pediatrics, analyzed ...

Interface.ai, a customer automation platform for banks and other financial institutions, today announced that it closed a $30 million funding round led by Avataar Venture Partners. Twenty million ...

The interface segregation principle (ISP), one of the five SOLID principles of object-oriented design, states that no client should be forced to depend on methods it does not use. When developers ...

Healthy little brown bats in Mt. Aeolus cave in Vermont in 2012 Ann Froschauer / USFWS via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 Bats get a bad rap. Often, the flying mammals are associated with vampiric monsters or ...

Without bats to eat insects, farmers turned to more pesticides, a study found. That appears to have increased infant deaths. By Catrin Einhorn The connections are commonsense but the conclusion is ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...