About 525,000 more deaths occurred among US adults in 2023 than would be expected had pre-2010 mortality trends continued.

About 525,000 more deaths occurred among US adults in 2023 than would be expected had pre-2010 mortality trends continued. More than 90 percent of ...

Analyzing mortality data from 47 Western countries, scientists from the Netherlands’ Vrije Universiteit found that excess mortality has “remained high” since 2020 — despite the widespread ...

Each year, the United States has hundreds of thousands of deaths that could have been averted, according to a new ...

(Editor's Note: See this story for the latest update.) Despite some signs that excess mortality rates are declining, life insurance executives and actuaries believe the numbers are alarming and ...

States with less restrictive gun laws after the 2010 Supreme Court decision that applied the Second Amendment to states ...

Mortality rates in the last several decades were significantly greater in the United States vs. other high-income countries, according to a research letter published in JAMA Health Forum.This ...

Intriguing’ new data suggest that excessive daytime sleepiness may do more than disrupt daily life — it may signal a higher ...

Between 2022 and 2023, there were 1.5 million “missing Americans” according to new research. That figure refers to excess deaths – people who would be alive had the US had a mortality rate on par with ...

As a public health priority, future research should focus on understanding the biological and structural drivers of cyclone-related mortality, how to minimize the number of excess deaths related ...

Of those excess deaths, more than 1 million occurred in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, according to the study. Those figures, however, remained high in the following years, with 1.2 million ...