North Carolina’s infant mortality rate dropped in 2024 to what state health officials say is a historic low. The infant death ...

Learn why career interest is surging for Death Doulas after actress Nicole Kidman announced that she was in training to become one, following the death of her mother.

North Carolina’s infant mortality rate hit an all-time low and overdose-related deaths plummeted in 2024, the N.C. Department ...

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Newly released data from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services showed that the infant mortality rate is ...

Death rates on Mount Everest have dropped significantly over the past century, even as more climbers attempt the summit, a ...

The number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the third consecutive year in 2024 but remained among the highest annual totals on record.

A new study analyzing Mount Everest expeditions spanning more than a century has found that death rates among climbers have ...

A new research paper was published in Volume 17 of Oncotarget on April 28, 2026, titled "Targeted therapeutics and U.S. population-level mortality trends in multiple myeloma: A SEER-based analysis ...

A Mass General Brigham Community Care Van parked at a visit to the Greater Boston Catholic Charities food bank in Dorchester.

Suicide rates in the United States follow striking, decades-long cycles likely shaped by broad social forces, according to a ...

New research points to potential links between racism, economic deprivation, and the elevated rates of maternal mortality ...