Illinois is seeing a drop in overdose deaths, despite slight increases in west-central Illinois counties. The administration of Gov. JB Pritzker said that, in 2023, Illinois saw the first decline in ...

Georgy Filimonov, the governor of Russia's Vologda region, who also blames alcohol consumption for Russia's mortality rates, ...

Based on its most recent preliminary analysis, the National Safety Council (NSC) says preventable traffic crashes on U.S.

The World Health Organization published its first-ever report on drowning prevention and included a major success story, a 38 ...

Breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in women in the U.S., killing more than 42,000 last year ...

South Carolina is still struggling with higher flu-related death rates and hospitalizations compared to last year, even as ...

Nearly one-third of sharks are threatened with extinction, mostly due to fishing. While mandated releases are helpful, ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- The number of Ohio babies dying before their first birthday has dropped to its lowest rate in 20 years.

After rising for a decade, the cardiac arrest mortality rate in the U.S. is beginning to fall, according to a study published March 9 in The American Journal of Cardiology. Researchers from academic ...

Experts predict that death rates from breast cancer will fall in 2025 in every age group in the EU and the UK apart from in EU patients aged 80 years and older. In these older patients, overall ...

Taiwan’s maternal mortality rate is higher than that of most Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) ...

Diabetes mortality declined in the U.S. by 32.1% from 2000 to 2019, with decreases in mortality observed among all racial and ...