Data: The Commonwealth Fund; Note: 13 states use combined 2022–23 numbers due to insufficient data; Chart: Erin Davis and Kavya Beheraj/Axios Visuals Some U.S. states have maternal mortality rates ...

Louisiana is in the grips of an infant mortality crisis. Babies born here are far more likely to die before their first birthday than those in other states. The death rate for Louisiana infants ...

In a recent study published in The Lancet Oncology, a group of researchers assessed mortality trends in the leading cancers from 2002 to 2019 across 314 districts in England using high-resolution ...

Global mortality rates are falling, but not among youths and young adults, according to the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study published in The Lancet today and presented at the World Health ...

The incidence of thyroid cancer in São Paulo State, part of Brazil's relatively developed Southeast region, varies considerably according to socioeconomic status (education, poverty, wealth, income, ...

The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year — the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. White and Native American infants, infant boys and ...

The increases were particularly stark among babies born to Native American, Alaska Native and white mothers in 2022. Rates among Black infants remained highest of all. By Roni Caryn Rabin The number ...

Frank writes in the Wall Street Journal: In a dissent from last week's ruling against racial preferences in college admissions, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson enumerated purported benefits of ...

Global mortality rates are falling but not among youths and young adults, according to the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study published in The Lancet today and presented at the World Health ...