Understanding the evidence on maternal mortality and its causes is a key to crafting solutions; this brief describes the ...

Fueled by fentanyl, the annual drug overdose death rate in the United States doubled between 2015 and 2023, going from 16 to ...

West Virginia has the highest mortality rate from drug overdoses in the United States, with 77.8 deaths reported ... certified training could mean the difference between life and death in states most ...

Overall, the highest childhood death rates were seen in Mississippi, where a mortality rate of 47.2 per 100,000 was reported in 2018. Louisiana and Montana followed this.

The United States continues to have a higher rate of women dying in pregnancy, childbirth or postpartum compared with all other high-income nations, even despite recent declines in the US maternal ...

The U.S. infant mortality rate increased for the first time in two decades in 2022, rising 3% from 2021, a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows. New Jersey was ...

The United States has executed 23 men this year, with six of those executions coming during one remarkable 11-day period. At least two more executions are scheduled before the end of the year.