Understanding the evidence on maternal mortality and its causes is a key to crafting solutions; this brief describes the state of U.S. maternal health in 2025.

The Commonwealth Fund’s updated July 2025 brief on maternal mortality highlights how systemic disparities, Medicaid coverage ...

The decline in ovarian cancer mortality rates after 2003 can be attributed to advances in treatment, precision medicine, improved preventive strategies, and a reduced disease incidence, according to ...

After a positive fecal immunochemical test, follow-up colonoscopies conducted in settings with a high adenoma detection rate ...

A NEW analysis of US national health records shows heart disease mortality has fallen by two-thirds since 1970, but deaths ...

Researchers said that long work hours, high-pressure environments, workplace violence, and occupational exposures may play a ...

In the United States, heart failure and acute myocarditis mortality trends have been increasing since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Fewer Americans are dying from heart attacks over the past 50 years as better prevention and heart care have saved more lives, according to a new study. The U.S. heart attack mortality rate has ...

Surgeons are 56% more likely to die compared to physicians in other specialities, according to a study published July 30 in JAMA Surgery. Researchers from Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s ...

Although nonsurgeon physicians have lower mortality rates than other highly educated professionals, this mortality benefit does not extend to surgeons. Because surgeons and nonsurgeon physicians have ...

Patients with active hemorrhage benefit when clinicians prioritize volume resuscitation before intubation and limit ED airway ...

Relatives bereaved by natural death with high and sustained grief symptoms have higher mental health care use and mortality for up to 10 years after loss.