A new report from the American Cancer Society highlights significant racial disparities in cancer death rates, particularly affecting African Americans.

Cancer deaths among Black men and women in the United States have declined during the past decade in the United States, a new American Cancer Society report says.

During that time, drug overdose deaths decreased by 4% nationwide, marking the first time overdose deaths declined since the ...

America's opioid crisis is showing signs of subsiding, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Texas sees a significant rise in sepsis among women after the abortion ban, raising concerns over delayed care and lives lost.

Some experts point to the broader availability of naloxone and fentanyl test strips. Even so, Alaska, Oregon, and Washington saw an increase in overdose deaths in 2023. More news is on gene therapy ...

From 2022 to 2023, there was a decrease in the age-adjusted rate of drug overdose death in the United States, according to a report published in the February Health E-Stats, a publication of the ...

America’s opioid crisis is showing signs of subsiding, a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prev ...

Cancer deaths among Black men and women in the U.S. have declined during the past decade in the United States, a new A ...

UC Davis Children’s Hospital in Sacramento has seen “five or 10 times more influenza (patients) than COVID (patients)” in 2025 alone, according to Dr. Dean Blumberg, the hospital’s chief of pediatric ...

For decades, U.S. life expectancy rose at least a little bit almost every year, thanks to medical advances and public health measures. It peaked in 2014, at nearly 79 years, and then was relatively ...