LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - A woman has been arrested in connection with the death of an infant in Lexington. Laken Snelling, 21, was arrested Sunday and charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

A University of Kentucky student-athlete was arrested in connection with the death of her infant and accused of concealing the birth by hiding the baby’s body in her home, authorities said. Laken ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LITTLE BIT. GUYS, BACK TO YOU. NEW AT NOON A MAN ACCUSED OF HITTING AN INFANT IN THE HEAD WITH A GAMING CONTROLLER APPEARED IN COURT THIS MORNING. STEPHEN HARRIS IS CHARGED WITH ASSAULT AND CRIMINAL ...