The disparity between Black and White Americans has been significant across various aspects of life. Black Americans have ...

CBS uses the term excess mortality when the number of deaths actually recorded is higher than the expected number for the same period. The expected number of deaths (without the coronavirus pandemic) ...

Black infants have consistently faced a risk for mortality almost twice that of white infants in the United States over the ...

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers struggled to grasp the rate of the virus's spread and the number of ...

Excess mortality for the age group peaked in 2021, at nearly triple the 1999-2010 rate. COVID-19 led to an uptick of young adult deaths due to respiratory illnesses, but excess deaths from issues ...

Women have a survival advantage over men, and we see an increase in the gap between male and female survival. Why did this male excess mortality emerge and grow over time? For a given age, adult men ...

Mortality rates among US adults spiked from 2011 to 2019 and 2020 to 2023, remaining higher than expected based on prepandemic levels.

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers struggled to grasp the rate of the virus’s spread and the number of ...

A documentary on the COVID-19 pandemic reveals hospital care denial to nursing home residents in Madrid, prompting calls for ...

A comprehensive study shows that people with fatty liver disease have almost twice the mortality rate of the general population. They have an increased risk of dying from both liver diseases and ...

Nagpur: A study on effects of temperature on gender-specific all-cause mortality concluded that women were more vulnerable than men when the temperatu.

The estimated infant mortality rate was highest for Black infants at 10.98%, resulting in 265 excess infant deaths, or 1.15 additional infant deaths per 1,000 live births above the expected rate ...