Over a 22-year period, 272 deaths were reported; nearly half cited "undetermined" causes ...

And why walking is still so dangerous here.

It is not currently understood whether the COVID-19 pandemic led to a lengthy period of elevated mortality rates or whether rates have returned to prepandemic trends. To examine this, I calculated age ...

A report in the medical journal JAMA said the most recent spike in deaths took place in a system with “longstanding failures” ...

Nationwide NCHS data (1994–2023) captured 101,037 CRC deaths ages 25–49, enabling age-standardized, sex-stratified trend ...

Fewer US women died around the time of childbirth in 2024, a government analysis shows, and provisional data suggests the trend may have continued last year. The US Centers for Disease Control and ...

As patients continue to arrive from states where care is restricted or denied, the strain on California providers and support ...

The maternal mortality crisis in the United States is a national embarrassment and it’s unfolding in real time. The U.S. continues to have one of the highest maternal death rates among high-income ...

Those who always doze off during the day are more likely to develop neurodegeneration and cardiovascular diseases.

A sweeping national analysis suggests that counties nearer to nuclear power plants experience higher cancer mortality, raising urgent questions about long-term environmental exposure, aging ...