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The number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the third consecutive year in 2024 but remained among the highest annual totals ...

Knowing patient survival rates is critical to informing research and care delivery, particularly in the oncology space. But what if survival data is inaccurate or incomplete? Well, that could ...

Mortality data and cause of death analysis constitute essential components of epidemiological surveillance and public health policy. By examining the completeness and accuracy of death registration ...

Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is a contributing writer at STAT focused on boys’ and men’s health. Too many new moms are dying in the U.S. Exactly how many, however, is harder to establish. After years of ...

(TNS) — Missing records from North Carolina have delayed the release of federal data on causes of death across the country, information that experts say is critical to understanding the health of the ...

Between 2019 and 2023, nearly 4,000 people died in U.S. jails. That's about 1,000 people annually. Nearly one-third of those deaths don't have a cause of death, according to an analysis of federal ...

For years, the Missouri Department of Corrections cobbled together death records from multiple sources. New data reveals, for the first time, that hundreds of people died in state prisons between 2018 ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers struggled to grasp the rate of the virus’s spread and the number of related deaths. While hospitals tracked cases and deaths within their walls, ...