Americans born after 1970 are dying faster than their parents, with higher rates of heart disease, cancer and overdoses ...

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

To understand life in America, we must understand how and when we die. In 2026, it’s not a pretty picture. U.S. health and ...

Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is focused on boys’ and men’s health: She looks into reproductive health, trending treatments, screening approaches, mental health, and everything in between. Too many new ...

The age-adjusted death rate was 884.2 and 632.8 per 100,000 population among males and females, respectively. HealthDay News — In 2023, there was a provisional total of 3,090,582 deaths in the US, ...

Excess death rates have remained high in the West for three years running since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, finds a data analysis of 47 countries published in BMJ Public Health. This is ...

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 ...

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 American ...

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, ...