The nation's infant mortality dropped to a new all-time low in 2025, largely thanks to medical advancements and public health efforts.

After decades of increasing cancer mortality, U.S. rates declined from 1991 to 2019, a 32% decrease. we investigated rates of cancer mortality improvement across 2954 counties and selected ...

The nation’s infant mortality dropped to a new all-time low in 2025. The U.S. national infant mortality rate dropped to below ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Among those aged 1 to 19, the net difference in mortality rates per 100 ...

There are striking disparities based on demographic factors and the U.S. lags behind some comparable nations.

Cancer in the United States experienced a dramatic turnaround in 1991. Prior to that year, cancer deaths had been increasing ...

The number of babies in Hamilton County who died before their first birthdays increased last year. The number of babies in Hamilton County who died before their first birthdays increased last year.

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 ...

The potential death toll of exceptional extreme heat events is crucial for climate risk analysis and adaptation planning but may not be captured by existing projections. Here we combine machine ...

A comprehensive meta-analysis in depression and mortality, led by the Department of Psychiatry at the School of Clinical Medicine, LKS Faculty of Medicine at the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has ...

What could Europe possibly have to learn from America on crime, health and mortality? Perhaps more than you might think. For decades the stereotype of the US has been of an unhealthy and dangerous ...