Understanding the evidence on maternal mortality and its causes is a key to crafting solutions; this brief describes the state of U.S. maternal health in 2025.

The Commonwealth Fund’s updated July 2025 brief on maternal mortality highlights how systemic disparities, Medicaid coverage ...

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

Previous studies have compared firearm mortality in the United States with other high-income countries and showed consistently higher U.S. death rates.

Based on recent mortality data, suicide in some populations is on the rise.

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 ...