The National Center for Health Statistics recently released complete birth data and provisional maternal and infant mortality data from 2022—the first data reflecting the aftermath of the initial ...

Using the statistics from the WHO, the gap between lifespan and health span is nearly 9.5 years worldwide and 12.5 years in the U.S. as of 2021. In other words, the world gained years of life faster ...

The Health Statistics and Geography Lab was established in 2008 by Wenjun Li to host federally and state-funded studies on community social and built environmental influences on health, health ...

Hundreds of women in the United States die from complications related to pregnancy, childbirth and the time after giving birth each year, and the country’s high maternal death rate makes it an outlier ...

Preliminary numbers show a nearly 4 percent decrease in deaths from opioids, largely fentanyl, but a rise in deaths from meth and cocaine. By Jan Hoffman Overdose deaths in the United States declined ...