Americans born after 1970 are dying faster than their parents, with higher rates of heart disease, cancer and overdoses ...

The overall death rate of children and adolescents in the United States increased 6.6% between 2020 and 2023, researchers reported on May 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine. Many of the top ...

Life expectancy reached 79 years in the U.S. in 2024, marking its highest age in American history. Lower death rates were reported for all the leading causes of death, including heart disease and ...

It is not currently understood whether the COVID-19 pandemic led to a lengthy period of elevated mortality rates or whether rates have returned to prepandemic trends. To examine this, I calculated age ...

COVID-19 was a leading cause of US excess deaths from 2020-2022, representing 1 in 5 US excess deaths in 2020 and 2021, and also coinciding with sharp increases in other diseases. Importantly, the ...

People in the United States are living longer than ever before, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A report released Thursday by the CDC’s National Center ...

The CDC excludes homicide, suicide, and overdose in defining "maternal mortality," instead focusing on more medical causes. An analysis of 2018-2023 data showed that drug overdoses, homicides, and ...

The Black Death was one of the most infamous pandemic events in history. It spread across Asia and Europe, decimating a third of the continent’s population during the Middle Ages. The cause was plague ...