All-cause mortality increased in 2020 to 2021 nationwide, with a slower increase in Medicaid expansion states, according to a study.

The following is a summary of “Demographic and regional trends of sepsis mortality in the United States, 1999–2022,” published in the April 2025 issue of BMC Infectious Diseases by Morrissey et al. Re ...

The paper analyzed data from a CDC database that is different from the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System hit hard ...

Over the last two decades, ischemic stroke mortality rates in the U.S. have grown, with almost 3 in 10 deaths occurring at home, and increases particularly among racial minorities and rural residents.

North Korea's estimated mortality rate for children under age 5 reached 18 per 1,000 live births in 2023, marking two ...

A new study found that the rates of pregnancy-related death in the U.S. increased by nearly 28% between 2018 and 2022, with ...

The NIH analysis saw the increase over five years and called the issue “an urgent public health priority.” Almost one-third of the pregnancy-related deaths took place between six weeks to a year after ...

Infant mortality rates have increased in US states which have enacted abortion bans following the landmark ruling overturning the nationwide right for women to access the procedure, a new study ...