The number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the third consecutive year in 2024 but remained among the highest annual totals ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. National COVID-19 memorial wall for the five-year anniversary on March 11, 2025, in London, England. Andrew Aitchison/In Pictures ...

Knowing patient survival rates is critical to informing research and care delivery, particularly in the oncology space. But what if survival data is inaccurate or incomplete? Well, that could ...

Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is a contributing writer at STAT focused on boys’ and men’s health. Too many new moms are dying in the U.S. Exactly how many, however, is harder to establish. After years of ...

Mortality data and cause of death analysis constitute essential components of epidemiological surveillance and public health policy. By examining the completeness and accuracy of death registration ...

For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for the first time, that hundreds of people died in state prisons between 2018 ...

(TNS) — Missing records from North Carolina have delayed the release of federal data on causes of death across the country, information that experts say is critical to understanding the health of the ...

Policymakers must keep both maternal health and its data front and center, because the strongest public-health and policy improvements can only be sustained with consistent data-informed care. This ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers struggled to grasp the rate of the virus’s spread and the number of related deaths. While hospitals tracked cases and deaths within their walls, ...