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Overdose deaths among pregnant and postpartum women nearly tripled between 2018 and 2021, according to a study from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) published Wednesday. The rate of overdoses increased from 4.9 per 100,000…

Several states are experiencing increases in deaths related to COVID-19 as the holidays approach and this year’s respiratory viral season sets in. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), eight…

Eye drops that have been contaminated with a highly drug-resistant strain of bacteria have now been linked to four deaths and 14 cases of blindness, according to an update from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). …

The outbreak of extensively drug-resistant bacteria linked to eye drops recalled earlier this year is continuing to grow, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says, with 81 cases and four deaths now reported across 18…

Beijing: The number of deaths worldwide from ischemic stroke increased from 2 million in 1990 to more than 3 million in 2019, and is expected to increase to nearly 5 million by 2030, according to a study. Ischemic stroke is caused by a…

Nearly 110,000 people died last year of drug overdoses in the United States, according to preliminary federal data published on Wednesday, a staggering figure that nonetheless represented a plateau after two years of sharp increases.The…

Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. plateaued for most of 2022, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), showing just a slight increase after significant spikes in years prior.  CDC researchers…

The disparity between white and black mortality rates has been laid bare by a new study.Researchers from Yale and the University of Massachusetts found that black Americans had 1.63 million excess deaths (the difference between the expected…

New research documents 1.63 million excess deaths among Black Americans, compared with their white counterparts, over the last two decades.  A study published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medicine Association, using data…

Despite years of efforts to reduce health disparities, a new study is calling attention to the drastic differences in mortality that continue to take a toll among Black Americans.Researchers found the Black population in the United…