Starting at birth, the comparatively poor standing of the United States on matters of life and death is strikingly evident. The US has a higher infant mortality rate than the majority of other ...

It turns out that in Franklin County, Ohio, over 70% of the deceased in critical categories are male: overdoses (71%), suicides (79%), homicides (79%) and motor vehicle fatalities (74%). This is not ...

Researchers have completed a comprehensive analysis of cancer statistics for different age groups in the United States and ...

Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have completed a comprehensive analysis of cancer statistics for ...

The findings highlight mixed trends in death and incidence rates across cancer types and based on race, ethnicity, and sex ...

CDC researchers report a rate of 7.1 per 100,000, an increase from 5.3 per 100,000 in a previous study. But improved ...

New U.S. government data shows that more U.S. women died around the time of childbirth last year, reversing two years of ...

Maternal mortality rates in the US remain high, especially compared with those of similarly wealthy countries, despite ...

A new study offers fresh insight into trends in maternal mortality in the United States. For the first time, the study disentangles genuine changes in health outcomes from shifts caused by how deaths ...