The U.S. experienced a historic rise in gun deaths in 2020, affecting all age groups and widening existing racial and ethnic disparities across the nation, federal health officials said Tuesday. From ...

A report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released Friday found a 154% increase in telehealth visits during the last week of March 2020, compared with the same time period in ...

The year 2020 will go down as a lot of things, and perhaps the vast majority of them negative, but here’s a pretty stomach-churning one: It will officially boast the shortest life expectancy ...

The rate of Americans killed by guns during the first year of the pandemic surged across the country to a level not seen since 1994, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the uninsured rate continued to rise in 2019. The data comes from the National Health Interview Survey, considered one of ...

Birth and fertility rates in the United States dropped in 2020 for the sixth straight year, plummeting to the lowest levels since 1979 and amounting for the largest single-year decrease in nearly 50 ...

July 21 (Reuters) - Life expectancy in the United States fell by a year and a half in 2020 to 77.3 years, the lowest level since 2003, primarily due to the deaths caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, a ...