A visualization from Our World in Data (OWID), drawing on 2020 estimates from the UN Inter-agency Group for Child Mortality Estimation, shows the world’s stark child-mortality paradox. Globally, 4.4% ...

Illinois’ latest maternal mortality report shows 94 pregnancy-related deaths in 2021–22—91% deemed preventable—with substance ...

The death rate in the United States returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2024 as Covid-19 fell out of the top 10 leading causes of death, according to a report published Wednesday by the US Centers for ...

Every August, for the past 22 years, Alesha Martin-Lane has mourned the loss of her daughter Tayler, who died at just five months old in 2003. Born prematurely with pediatric Graves’ disease—a rare ...