The latest American Cancer Society report shows a 34% drop in cancer mortality since 1991, but reveals a worrying increase in ...

The United States death rate decreased by 3.8% in 2024 as COVID fell out of the top 10 leading causes of death for the first time in four years, new provisional federal data shows. The overall rate ...

(Bloomberg) -- More Americans are living with cancer as death rates continue to decline, thanks to improved detection methods and better treatment options. Seven out of ten people survived for five ...

Overall, cancer death rates in people younger than 50 have dropped by 44% since 1990. Only colorectal cancer deaths have ...

Another reader felt that the biggest benefits of a falling human population will be to the planet itself: “Less pollution, less deforestation, less mass extinctions of other species, etc., etc.

The implication, some say, is that when TAVI expanded to lower-risk patients in 2019, death rates rose—not so fast, say ...

HealthDay News — From 2023 to 2024, there was an increase in life expectancy and a decrease in age-adjusted death rates, while decreases were also seen in drug overdose death rates, according to two ...

President Donald Trump said Sunday that the peak death rate in the United States from the coronavirus pandemic was likely to hit in two weeks and extended "social distancing" guidelines until April 30 ...

The healthiest states in the country are in New England, according to new detailed analysis of Americans’ wellbeing. New Hampshire took the top spot, according to a report from the UnitedHealth ...

Rural areas may be more affected by adverse social and environmental factors than urban areas, Mitchell Elkind says.

While age-adjusted heart failure (HF) mortality rates appeared to decline from 1999-2011, the trajectory has since been reversed and rates were higher in 2021 than they were in 1999. That is according ...