Infant mortality and births increased in the majority of states that had abortion bans in the year after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade, according to two new studies.

Childhood death rates are on the rise across the United States, new research has found. Between 2018 and 2022, child and adolescent mortality increased by 18.8 percent, more than twice the increase ...

The child mortality rate has increased since 2019, with firearm deaths and substance use playing major roles. Among those aged 1 to 19, the net difference in mortality rates per 100,000 grew from 4 to ...

Mississippi health officials have declared a state of emergency over the rate of infant mortality in the state Getty Mississippi health officials have declared a state of emergency over the rate of ...

[ Editor's Note: InsuranceNewsNet recently discussed what is known about excess mortality and what might be done to combat this phenomenon with the "Insurance Collaboration to Save Lives," a new ...

Americans might find themselves thinking twice about how much chicken they eat after a cohort study in Italy suggested an association between poultry consumption and mortality. Researchers at the ...

Regulators and actuaries are considering a data change to better account for a puzzling mortality degradation in individuals ages 80 and older. The Life Mortality Improvement Subgroup of the Mortality ...