It is well established that those with lower incomes tend to have worse health outcomes. But whether this relationship extends to the most disadvantaged in society – people experiencing homelessness – ...

Grave warnings of a crisis in maternal deaths are being slightly eroded by articles suggesting that advocates overreached and that the “crisis” was primarily a ...

The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year — the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. White and Native American infants, infant boys and ...

Maternal mortality rates in the United States have dropped to their lowest levels in recent years, according to new data ...

The neonatal mortality rate in the US decreased from 1999 to 2022, with deaths from interstitial emphysema and related conditions showing the steepest decline, yet mortality from slow fetal growth and ...

While everybody's heart has an absolute chronological age (as old as that person is), hearts also have a theoretical "biological" age that is based on how the heart functions. So, someone who is 50 ...

Mortality surveillance is an important activity for capturing information on a population’s health. This retrospective surveillance analysis utilizes administrative data sources to describe active ...

Working-age US adults are dying at far higher rates than their peers from high-income countries, even surpassing death rates in Central and Eastern European countries, and midlife mortality rates in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Excess deaths at age 10 to 19 years increased between 2009 (27.5%) to 2019 (35.8%). More than half of the deaths ...