Mecklenburg County sees improvements in infant mortality rates, yet health disparities endanger Black infants.

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, as maternal mortality fell below prepandemic levels overall but racial ...

Earlier this week, the American Cancer Society (ACS) published its annual report in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians. Each year, a team of doctors and researchers provides a comprehensive outlook ...

Rural residents face an increasingly larger share of cancer deaths in the U.S., with the gap continuing to widen between them ...