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Texas House votes to extend life of maternal mortality task force

Published on August 13, 2017 under CommunityImpact

Legislation that would extend the life of a state task force studying Texas’ high maternal morbidity rates was tentatively approved by the Texas House late Sunday night.  Under Senate Bill 17, the state’s Task Force on Maternal Mortality and Morbidity would continue its work until 2023. The task force, launched by the Legislature in 2013, found that between 2011 and 2012, 189 Texas mothers died less than a year after their pregnancies ended, mostly from heart disease, drug overdoses and high blood pressure. In August, a study in the medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology showed that Texas’ maternal mortality rates […]

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