US infant mortality uptick falsely linked to Covid-19 vaccination

The infant mortality rate in the United States rose for the first time in two decades between 2021 and 2022, but social media ...
Medscape

Data Trends: Heart Failure Prevalence, Risk Factors, and Mortality

Men have both a higher prevalence and incidence of heart failure. A recent US-based study found this association in incidence ...
News-Medical.Net

Cardiometabolic diseases remain leading cause of excess American mortality

Between 1999 and 2022, the US had substantially higher death rates than other wealthy nations, largely due to cardiovascular ...
STAT

Maternal mortality data is murky — but the crisis faced by new moms is clear

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 ...
Healio

Patient, family preference may drive sex disparity in acute MI and shock mortality

Differences in treatment, not sex, may explain the higher mortality rates observed among women who present with acute ...

Racism-Related Stress May Contribute To High Black Maternal Mortality Rates, Study Finds

New research points to potential links between racism, economic deprivation, and the elevated rates of maternal mortality ...
CURE

Multiple Myeloma Death Rates Decline as Targeted Therapies Transform Survival

SEER 1975–2023 analysis demonstrated a long-term mortality inflection from rising rates to sustained declines, with the ...