Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The mortality rate in the United States declined by 3.8% in 2024, and COVID-19 was no longer among the 10 leading causes of death, ...

A figure commonly used to compare the risk of death from pregnancy compared with the risk of death from abortion might be ...

More American women died around the time of childbirth last year than in 2023, according to provisional data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Wednesday. The maternal ...

Age-adjusted dementia deaths rates were stable between 2018 and 2019, then increased in 2020 and decreased slightly in 2022, according to a report published in the November Health E-Stats. The ...

A new report on cancer in the US shows a steady decline in overall deaths from 2001 through 2022. The rate of diagnoses among men fell from 2001 through 2013 and then stabilized through 2021 but these ...

A recent nationwide study has uncovered troubling trends in patient mortality rates within U.S. hospitals acquired by private equity firms. Conducted by researchers from Harvard Medical School, the ...

Death rates due to breast cancer in 2025 are set to decrease for women across most age groups in Europe, according to a new ...

A new paper in the Journal of Breast Imaging, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that breast cancer mortality rates have stopped declining in women older than age 74, and reconfirms that ...

Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, said Tuesday that U.S. health care has dropped in quality but increased in expense compared to other developed ...

Michigan’s infant mortality rate reached the lowest point on record in 2023. The state reported 607 infant deaths within their first year of life, compared to 99,178 live births, for a rate of 6.1 ...