AUSTIN, Texas — The House Committee on Public Health on Monday discussed a bill aimed at reducing the backlog of maternal death cases that need review. House Bill 713, authored by State Rep. Donna ...

AUSTIN, Texas — State lawmakers are considering changing how often maternal deaths are reviewed in Texas. On Thursday, the House Committee on Public Health discussed House Bill 2117, which would ...

The Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee met on Friday to discuss the latest two-year maternal mortality report and to discuss changes, including for the group to review ...

Since 2013, one Texas task force has analyzed hundreds of pregnancy-related death cases and released dozens of recommendations for their prevention — helping shape policy and best practices for ...

A Texas health committee that reviews all maternal deaths will not examine cases in 2022 and 2023 — the years directly ...

The Texas Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee in Austin on Sept. 27, 2024. Many Texans at Friday's meeting questioned the committee's decision not to review maternal deaths for the first ...

AUSTIN, Texas (KTRK) -- State health officials will not be providing their usual review of pregnancy-related deaths for 2022 and 2023. That means no in-depth analysis of the years immediately ...

That’s according to the state’s Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee, which assesses deaths that occur during pregnancy, childbirth and the first year postpartum. As reported in ...

Dr. Ingrid Skop, an influential anti-abortion advocate, will now be reviewing maternal deaths for the state. The noise about ‘Hunter Biden’s laptop’ is obscuring a report from the Texas government on ...

On Thursday, the House Committee on Public Health discussed House Bill 2117, which would require the Maternal Mortality and Morbidity Review Committee to review cases every year instead of every two ...