infant mortality

MU Health Care's Journeys team hosts the memorial for those who've experienced miscarriage, stillbirth or early infant loss.

Missouri officials attribute part of the rise to an increase in fentanyl-related deaths and unsafe sleeping conditions.

Infant mortality in Missouri went up 16% between 2021 and 2022, according to federal data released earlier this month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Missouri was one of only four states that showed a significant rise.

Taja Welton is ready for her daughter to be born. She’s moved into a bigger house, one with room for a nursery. She has a closet full of pink, Minnie...

On a rainy Tuesday morning in May, social worker Meghan Bragers drove up to Ferguson, Mo. to visit a 23-year-old expectant mother named Marie Anderson....

One year ago, while reporting on infant mortality rates in Kennett, Missouri, I met a 27-year-old expectant mother named Marylouisa Cantu. She was…

This story is part of our series "Shortage in Rich Land" on Missouri's Bootheel region. Click here to see all of the stories.It’s a cold afternoon in…

The nurse who was walking across part of Missouri announced this morning that she will not be continuing her walk.Sherry Payne posted on her…

Missouri's Republican-led House has defeated legislation that would have charged a panel of medical professionals with developing streamlined standards…