Over the seven-decade span, the study estimated 5.02 million excess deaths and 173.6 million years of life lost among Black Americans that would not have occurred if their mortality rates matched ...

Today, Donald Trump’s presidency has brought a wave of executive actions, judicial appointments, and public rhetoric that emboldened racist systems and undermined civil rights protections. From ending ...

New study reveals that Black children in the US have faced significantly higher mortality rates than their White peers, with no improvement since the 1950s.

A global analysis of dietary trends across 101 countries over 60 years reveals that populations consuming more plant-based ...

Fewer people crossed state lines to obtain abortions in 2024 than a year earlier, a new survey has found. The Guttmacher ...

The study found abortions in states where they’re legal increased and the number of people crossing state lines to get them dropped.

Over the last two decades, ischemic stroke mortality rates in the U.S. have grown, with almost 3 in 10 deaths occurring at home, and increases particularly among racial minorities and rural residents.

The NIH analysis saw the increase over five years and called the issue “an urgent public health priority.” Almost one-third of the pregnancy-related deaths took place between six weeks to a year after ...

A new study found that the rates of pregnancy-related death in the U.S. increased by nearly 28% between 2018 and 2022, with ...

The study, published March 25 in the Annals of Internal Medicine, documents more than half a million avoidable infant deaths ...

A new report presented in New York on 8 April reveals that current United Nations projections on infant mortality rates are ...

Black Americans, including infants and children, have persistent excess mortality relative to White Americans.