{
  "id": 12102309,
  "title": "After years of calls for data, study confirms Black Canadians face higher risk of maternal complications",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/after-years-of-calls-for-data-study-confirms-black-canadians-face",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-05T08:00:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
    "slug": "cbc-news",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/black-maternal-complications-canadian-data-9.7368393"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The most comprehensive study yet of maternal health in Canada has found that Black Canadians face a much higher risk of serious complications during pregnancy, labour, delivery and postpartum than white people — underlining the urgent need for better data tracking and tools to eliminate systemic anti-Black racism in our health-care system, researchers and advocates say.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Medical Xpress",
        "title": "Black people at higher risk of severe complications during pregnancy, labor, and the postpartum period",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/black-people-at-higher-risk-of-severe-complications-during-pregnancy",
        "published": "2026-10-05T04:10:01.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "CBC Canada",
        "title": "After years of calls for data, study confirms Black Canadians face higher risk of maternal complications",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/after-years-of-calls-for-data-study-confirms-black-canadians-face",
        "published": "2026-10-05T08:00:00.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}