Around 44,000 people died of gun-related injuries in the United States in 2024, according to the latest available statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The number of ...

Americans died at the lowest rate on record in 2025. Did life expectancy hit all-time high?

Jan. 21 (UPI) --More people die from heart disease and stroke than from anything else in the United States, despite a five-year decline, a study released Wednesday by the American Heart Association ...

The U.S. death rate fell in 2025 to the lowest level ever recorded, driven by broad declines in mortality across every age group, new data shows, even while heart disease and cancer remain the ...

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A powerful AI-driven analysis uncovers hidden COVID-19 deaths across the US, exposing deep inequities in how the pandemic’s toll was recorded. Study: Applying machine learning to identify unrecognized ...

Researchers from the University of California San Diego have found that U.S. overdose death rates declined dramatically between 2023 and 2024, marking the first recorded drop in all four waves of the ...

For two decades, the United States and Canada have struggled with a drug epidemic. From 2003 to 2022, annual overdose deaths in the United States rose from less than 26,000 to nearly 108,000—becoming ...