During the pandemic’s first two years, life expectancy in the US plummeted by about 2.7 years ... infections contributed to a decline in mortality rates. Even so, Covid’s long-term health ...

The rate was 15 in 1941. An estimated 49,449 people died by suicide in 2022, the CDC said. That's an increase of 2.6% over the 48,183 suicide deaths in 2021. The 2022 numbers are provisional ...

Maternal deaths in the US have surged to the highest rate in nearly six decades, a new report has revealed. The number of mothers who died during or shortly after pregnancy rose to 1,205 in 2021 ...

(CNN) — A steep drop in Covid-19 deaths helped the overall death rate in the United States fall 6% in 2023, according to provisional data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control ...

In the United States, the richest mothers ... between a mother’s income and rates of premature births and infant mortality. The first chart shows that as a woman’s income rises, the likelihood ...

U.S. working-age adults are dying at higher rates ... deaths from metabolic disease, and conditions of the respiratory and nervous systems. "Over the past three decades midlife mortality in the US ...

A new study found that more than one million US deaths a year - including many young and working-age adults - could be avoided if the US had mortality rates similar to its peer nations. In 2021, 1 ...

But that number has been about 10% higher the past few years, adding 500 to 600 more deaths each year to the annual tally. It’s the first uptick in drowning rates in the US for at least two decades.

The United States possesses the highest infant and maternal mortality rates compared with any other high-income country, even though it spends the most on health care. The United States has the ...

Death rates from cancer in the US have fallen by 32% over the three decades from 1991 to 2019, according to the American Cancer Society. The decline is thanks to prevention, screening, early ...