Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new study from the American Cancer Society is shedding light on cancer mortality rates among young people — and the one type of ...

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

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 ...

Deaths among people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have increased in recent years after a long decline, and better monitoring of medical care and mortality rates in this ...

Physicians said Thursday that new research on deaths in ICE custody showed that “systemic weakness” in medical care at the agency has become more serious in the past two decades. Meanwhile, the number ...

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 ...