Pregnancy

Initial numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention find a small bump of 22,250 births over 2023's tally. Vermont had the lowest birth rate that year while Utah had the highest.

The lawsuit had argued that emergency-room doctors treating pregnant women had to provide terminations if needed to save their lives or to avoid serious health consequences in Idaho, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.

Utah’s incidents of domestic violence are below the national rates, but advocates say any amount of abuse is too much.

Utah has been out of federal ozone attainment standards since 2015. The director of the Utah Division of Air Quality says current mitigation efforts haven’t been effective.

The leading causes of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States — including suicides and fatalities linked to substance use disorders — stem from mental health conditions. Now a federal task force has recommended strategies to help women who are at risk during or after pregnancy.

Doctors in states with strict abortion restrictions say an increasing number of pregnant women are seeking early prenatal testing. They're hoping to detect serious problems while they still have time to choose whether to continue the pregnancy.

More and more Utahns are having fewer and fewer babies.

A new analysis from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute shows a sizable increase in parents between the ages of 25 and 29 between 2020-2021.

Dr. Andy Pavia says the tripledemic of RSV, flu and COVID-19 could look very different at Primary Children's Hospital. Last year they had to reschedule surgeries and make kids wait for beds.

Substance use kills more new mothers in Utah than any other cause. A federal grant will create a new research center aimed at turning that trend around.

The most common time for a person to be homeless in the United States is during the first year of life.

U.S. Census Bureau data sheds new light on the imbalance in demographics of the youngest state in the union.