Among those aged 1 to 19, the net difference in mortality rates per 100,000 grew from 4 to just under 6 for firearm deaths.

U.S. children face rising mortality and worsening health compared to peers in wealthy nations, according to a new study.

Newly released data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows New Hampshire has the lowest infant mortality ...

Health departments have cut staff and reorganized programs as they try to adapt to the state's 70% funding cut.

The United States has a higher infant mortality rate than any of the other 27 wealthy countries, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control.. A baby born in the U.S. is nearly ...

Cradle Cincinnati – a nonprofit focused on reducing infant mortality – is starting work to expand its model to other Ohio ...

The infant mortality rate — defined as the number of babies who die before they are a year old for every 1,000 live births — also increased by a statistically significant 3 percent last year ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. infant mortality rate rose 3% last year — the largest increase in two decades, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. White and Native American ...

The neonatal mortality rate -- infant deaths at less than 28 days of life -- also rose 3% from 3.49 per 1,000 live births in 2021 to 3.58 in 2022 and the postneonatal mortality rate -- infant ...

The year before, in 2021, an analysis from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that while the total number of infant deaths had increased from 2020, the mortality rate had ...

The CDC has just released *** new report on infant mortality rates in the US. And the news is grim according to their findings, that number has actually gone up for the first time in two decades ...