A new study found more than 1 million U.S. deaths a year—including those in young people and working-age adults—would have been averted if the United States had mortality rates similar to other wealthy nations. Published in the journal PNAS Nexus, researchers assessed how many U.S. deaths would have been avoided each year from 1933 through…

Mortality rates among American children and adolescents rose by almost 20 percent in just two years, with non-COVID injuries being a top reason for increased deaths. Between 2019 and 2020, all-cause mortality rates for Americans in the age group of 1 to 19 years jumped by 10.7 percent, according to data collected and published by JAMA Network…

Fruits and vegetables are rich in vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, carotenoids, and polyphenols. Recent survey research showed that fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease and cancers. A research team led by Atsushi Goto, a professor at Yokohama City University, and Hitoshi Nakagama, the president of the National…

Alarming even insurance companies, something has driven the death rate up 40% among working Americans within a one-year period, and it’s not COVID-19. As we’ve seen over the past two years, data and statistics can be manipulated and skewed in a wide variety of ways. One of the most reliable data points we have is…

The COVID-19 mortality rate made it the third leading cause of death in the United States in 2020 after heart disease and cancer, according to a government report released on Wednesday. COVID-19 was the primary or contributing cause of 377,883 deaths in the United States last year, with a particularly high toll among the elderly, the…