Since 1970, heart attack deaths have fallen almost 90 per cent in the US, though deaths from chronic heart conditions have significantly risen ...

Over 700,000 people die by suicide yearly. Youth are most affected. Rates are highest in low-income countries with limited ...

Shifting patterns in ischemic stroke mortality and death locations across US populations highlight disparities and end-of-life care needs.

Though stroke mortality has decreased over the last few decades, there is still room for improvement, researchers said. Using global data on stroke mortality and risk factors as recent as 2021, ...

Nigeria accounts for 29% of global maternal deaths - a lack of medics and poor facilities are partly to blame.

As temperatures rose in more than a dozen Middle Eastern and North African countries over the past two decades, cancer mortality among women did too, according to a new study.

The death rates in the UK, meanwhile, have fallen even more by 10.1 per cent among men and 6.3 per cent among women. They predict that there will be 1.28 million cancer deaths in the EU and ...

In the EU-27 countries, they predict there will be a 3.5% fall in the age standardised death rates for all cancers from 125 per 100,000 of the population in 2020 to 121 per 100,000 in 2025 for men ...

With 43 deaths in 2023 and a population of around 6,569, the most recent death rate for the Maricopa County jails was 654 deaths per 100,000 inmates. In 2024, the Sheriff’s Office has only ...

Overall, the all-cause infant mortality rate rose from 5.44 infant deaths per 1,000 births to 5.6 infant deaths per 1,000 births — the first year-over-year increase in the rate since 2001 to 2002.

Black women in the U.S. had the highest rate by far at 49.5 deaths per 100,000 live births, followed by rates of 19 per 100,000 among whites in the country, 16.9 per 100,000 among Hispanics and 13 ...