Texas still has the highest uninsured rate of any state in the country, beating out the next-highest state by a wide margin, ...

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.

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 ...

Since the change in 2019, the Justice Department has not been able to compare jail mortality rates across the country, as the U.S. attorney general outlined in a report from 2022. An Office of ...

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 ...

Ten of the countries listed in the report had a death rate of fewer than 10 per 100,000 live births; in 2022, Norway’s maternal death rate was zero. Laurie C. Zephyrin, senior vice president for ...