The maternal mortality rate dropped slightly for Asian women as well, decreasing from 13.2 deaths per 100,000 live births in ...

The fertility rate in the U.S. was on a constant decline between 2014 and 2020 and has fluctuated since then, CDC reports.

By the end of 2020, the CDC counted 385,676 confirmed U.S. deaths caused by the virus. The weekly death rate peaked soon after, with 25,974 people dying of the virus during the first week of 2021.

There were 26.4 deaths per 100,000 people from diabetes, according to early death certificate data for the third quarter of 2024 published this month by the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics ...

Black infants died at a rate of 10.9 deaths per 1,000 live births, the CDC said. Infant mortality rates remained relatively unchanged from 2022 to 2023, but racial and ethnic disparities still ...

In 2005, Mississippi’s Alzheimer’s death rate was the 22nd highest nationally at 26.6 per 100,000 people. Based on available data from the CDC, its peak was 58 per 100,000 in 2020, more than ...

Drug overdose deaths dropped in the United States in 2024 to the lowest levels seen in five years, according to a new CDC ...

The flu vaccination rate for U.S. children ... at preventing hospitalizations and deaths, O'Leary said. The season has not only been hard on children. CDC officials have described it as ...

The overall death ... CDC's National Center for Health Statistics' (NCHS) National Vital Statistics System. In 2023, there were about 3.09 million deaths in the U.S. with an age-adjusted rate ...

Maternal deaths have dropped in the U.S. with the exception of Black mothers, according to data released this week from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A report from the ...