World Health Rankings compiles various health data from around the world, including details about life expectancy and causes ...

A recent study reveals a concerning trend in the United States. Death rates are not improving equally across all counties.

The CDC released its annual list of the leading causes of death in the U.S. Here's what you need to know, including the top reasons Americans died in 2023.

Among genders, men had a higher mortality rate than women for all but two of the 17 leading causes of death. Heart disease was the leading cause of death among U.S. adults in 2021.

And in 2020, COVID-19 was the third leading cause of death for adults aged 55 and up – though fatal cases of the disease have since decreased significantly. (This is the COVID-19 final count ...

In 2022, there were 3,279,857 deaths in the U.S. The top five causes of death remain the same as in the previous two years, although COVID-19 has moved from the third leading cause to the fourth.

The COVID-19 death rate fell from 58.7 per 100,000 deaths in 2022 to 18.2 per 100,000 in 2023, the report found. The number of COVID-19-associated deaths fell from 2023 across all age groups and ...

Cancer at No. 8 and stroke (then called apoplexy) and No. 10 are also still leading causes of death in the U.S. Comparing death rates between 1890 and 1900, there’s good news and bad news.

T he leading causes of death haven’t changed since 1990 — with one glaring, pandemic-sized exception.. According to the latest analysis of the Global Burden of Disease study, which reviewed ...

Heart disease and cancer remained the top two leading causes of death, and rates for both increased in 2022. Nearly 700,000 people died from heart disease, and about 608,000 people died from cancer.

Nine of the ten leading causes of death in 2020 were the same in 2019 Heart disease was named the top cause of death in the U.S., across races and ethnicities Over 600,000 U.S. residents ...

Colorectal cancer is now among the leading causes of cancer deaths among young adults, according to a new report from the American Cancer Society. A cancer doctor shared insights.