It’s often seen as a marker of an area’s demographic health: more births than deaths. But recently, a record number of Washington counties have been seeing the opposite. According to population data ...

But those trends weren’t all positive: we’re not far from the point where, each winter, deaths will regularly edge out births ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A new report from the Washington State Department of Health (DOH) found that while maternal mortality rates in Washington are lower than nationally, pregnancy-related deaths continue ...

WASHINGTON -- Almost three-quarters of all U.S. counties reported more deaths than births last year, a development largely caused by the pandemic, which contributed to a significant slowing in the ...

Critical injuries for Washington children involved in the state’s welfare system jumped significantly in the first half of this year. Through June, at least 92 children had died or nearly died, ...

American women are having fewer children today than at any other time in recorded history, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released Thursday. Amazingly the ...

Janet McCalman received funding from the Australian Research Council between 1998 and 2015 which used these records. Along with colleagues across Australia, she is lobbying for Australia's vital ...