A city man is behind bars on involuntary manslaughter and related charges in the death of his infant son in 2022. Robert Paul Charles Jenkins Jr., 34, was arrested Monday after a nearly three-year ...

The Mississippi health department declared a public health emergency Thursday over rising infant mortality rates in the state. There were 9.7 deaths for every 1,000 births in Mississippi in 2024, the ...

Dr. Céline Gounder, an internist, epidemiologist and infectious disease specialist, is a CBS News medical contributor as well as senior fellow and editor-at-large for public health at KFF Health News.

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. Teara Coates, 21, ...

The Mississippi State Department of Health has declared a public health emergency after it "could not wait to take action" in response to rising infant mortality rates throughout the state, according ...

A Fort Worth woman is facing a capital murder charge after police say she put a baby in a suitcase and left it in a dumpster. On July 20, 2024, Fort Worth Police said the department's Crimes Against ...

An arrest affidavit provides new details in the death of an infant girl who had been left in a car unattended for an extended period on Tuesday, police say. Late Tuesday evening, Rockwall Police ...

GRIMES, Iowa (KCCI) - An Iowa infant has died after being hit dozens of times by a man, KCCI reports. Dylan Brown was arrested earlier this month and charged with felony child endangerment and felony ...

A recent study by Marta Fernández-Viejo and her colleagues from the laboratory of Human Evolution of the University of Burgos and University of León, published in Childhood in the Past, examined the ...

Since 2014, over 3,500 babies in the state have died before their 1st birthday. Mississippi state health officials have announced a public health emergency due to the state's rising infant mortality ...

Mississippi health officials have declared a state of emergency over the rate of infant mortality in the state Getty Mississippi health officials have declared a state of emergency over the rate of ...