The child mortality rate has increased since 2019, with firearm deaths and substance use playing major roles. Among those aged 1 to 19, the net difference in mortality rates per 100,000 grew from 4 to ...

American children have a higher mortality rate than those in comparable high-income countries, according to a new study published Monday in the journal JAMA Network. "The health of US children has ...

A new report by the Gates Foundation and researchers at the University of Washington predicts that 200,000 more children will die of preventable causes this year than last year. That's the first time ...

Global life expectancy in 2023 is more than 20 years higher compared to 1950, and the age-standardized mortality rate is 67% lower, with all 204 countries and territories reporting declines. Despite ...

Global mortality rates are falling but not among youths and young adults, according to the latest Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study published in The Lancet today and presented at the World Health ...

Infant mortality in the United States decreased by 24.2% between 1999 and 2022. Researchers from Virginia Commonwealth University and Children's Hospital of Richmond at VCU discovered this improvement ...

Mortality surveillance and cause of death data are instrumental in improving health, identifying diseases and conditions that cause a high burden of preventable deaths, and allocating resources to ...

The 36 Arizona children who died because of drowning were among 380 children under the age of 17 who died preventable deaths in 2024. The report analyzes the deaths of all 791 children who died in ...

Mass administration of azithromycin to children 1 to 59 months of age has been shown to reduce mortality among infants and children in this age group in some areas of sub-Saharan Africa. The largest ...