The United States’ maternal mortality rate has improved in recent years, but it continues to lag behind pre-COVID-19 pandemic ...

The mortality disadvantage among children in the United States has existed for more than 50 years, according to recent ...

The overall death rate of children and adolescents in the United States increased 6.6% between 2020 and 2023, researchers ...

The somewhat worrying trend in the crude death rate is that it remains above the level of 6 seen in 2019 and 2020.

In a meeting for Mass General Brigham doctors in November 2024, Dr. Giles Boland, president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, ...

Between 2010 and 2020, rural regions in Quebec, Ontario and the Prairies had the highest rates, while Montreal, Toronto and ...

As per data from the PMC, infant deaths in the city dropped from 843 in 2021, to 519 in 2022, to 346 in 2023, to 386 in 2024, ...

Patients treated for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or pneumonia experienced worse outcomes when treated at ...

Olivia Walton, the founder of Bentonville-based women's health and economic advocacy organization Ingeborg Initiatives, ...

At least six Americans were exposed to a terrifying strain of Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo — and the US ...

Among individuals who visit the emergency department for an opioid overdose and survive, there is a 8.6% 1-year mortality rate.