North Carolina’s infant mortality rate dropped in 2024 to what state health officials say is a historic low. The infant death ...

Deaths fell overall globally in 2023, according to a new report that also warns that deaths among young people have risen and health inequities are widening. The latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) ...

For months, Dr. Daniel Edney had watched his state's infant mortality rate rise. "It just kept climbing," he remembers. "We'd get another death coming in, another death coming in." As the public ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Life expectancy returned to prepandemic rates in 2023. COVID-19 fell from the top cause of death in 2021 to 20th ...

The newly released report shows North Carolina's infant mortality rate dropped 8.7% between 2023 and 2024.

In Dallas County, residents are dying at a lower rate than during the peak of the pandemic, but the mortality rate still hasn’t dropped back to prepandemic levels. Those findings come according to the ...

Wisconsin's alcohol-induced death rate has declined since a pandemic-era spike but remains above pre-pandemic levels. The state's alcohol-induced mortality rate of 18.2 per 100,000 residents is higher ...