Rates of fatal drug overdoses are higher than expected in most states, despite a 14.5% decrease in the year leading up to June 2024.

Black infants have consistently faced a risk for mortality almost twice that of white infants in the United States over the ...

Recent data shows larger inequalities for cancer mortality than cancer incidence in Black Americans compared with White Americans.

They also tend to have worse outcomes and higher mortality rates for cancers, including lung and prostate cancer. Recent data from the CDC shows older Black populations die from stroke ...

The COVID pandemic could be a cause, but perhaps not the only reason, for the changes from 2018 to 2022. Only time will tell.

Non-Hispanic Black populations face the highest risk of death from chronic kidney disease (CKD)–associated cardiac arrest, a ...

However, the most common causes of death were cardiovascular disease and non-liver cancer, with mortality rates 54 and 47 per cent higher, respectively. People with MASLD also had an increased ...

The number of homeless people dying in Los Angeles County has leveled off, with data showing a 1% mortality rate increase in ...

The benefits and costs of current NICU capacity and further growth warrant clinical and policy scrutiny,’ authors of a new ...

Black mothers are three times as likely as white women to die in childbirth, and Black fetuses and infants die at rates far ...

“These findings provide evidence that fertility and infant mortality rates in states with abortion bans were higher than would have been expected in the absence of these policies, with the ...

Although overall cancer mortality rates are declining for Black patients, they continue to have higher mortality rates than White patients for some cancers.