We explore America’s childhood death rate. By Emily Baumgaertner I cover public health issues affecting children. If I drew you a graph that showed the death rate among American kids, you would see a ...
Attorney General Pam Bondi deleted a social media post that wrongly credited a decline in US drug overdose deaths to the ...
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 ...
North Carolina’s maternal mortality rate saw a 100% increase from 2019 to 2021 during the peak of the pandemic, data shows. AsiaVision Getty Images In a country that has one of the worst maternal ...
The death rate in the United States returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2024 as Covid-19 fell out of the top 10 leading causes of death, according to a report published Wednesday by the US Centers for ...