Data published Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that rates of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States decreased in the early months of the COVID-19 ...

Every state saw a decline in life expectancy during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new federal data published Tuesday. The report, from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The year 2020 will go down as a lot of things, and perhaps the vast majority of them negative, but here’s a pretty stomach-churning one: It will officially boast the shortest life expectancy ...

The rate of Americans killed by guns during the first year of the pandemic surged across the country to a level not seen since 1994, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Throughout the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, US hospitals experienced an increase in health care–associated infections (HAIs), reversing encouraging trends seen in recent years, new CDC data ...

Life expectancy in the US fell from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77.3 years in 2020, the CDC estimated. The agency attributed 75% of the decline to COVID-19 deaths. Hispanic Americans saw the most drastic ...

Hawaii had the highest life expectancy and Mississippi had the lowest. Every state saw a decline in life expectancy during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new federal data ...