Family medicine physician Dr. Jessica Gray discusses an encouraging 4.6% decrease in the U.S. death rate, attributing it to ...

The U.S.'s death rate fell to a record low in 2025, driven by fewer overdose and COVID-19 deaths, CDC data shows.

By Christy Santhosh July 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. provisional death rate fell 4.6% in 2025, with heart disease, cancer and ...

A continued drop in drug overdose deaths contributed to the low rate, while influenza and pneumonia now rank among the top 10 ...

The U.S. death rate fell to a record low in 2025, according to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Deaths from flu and pneumonia, meanwhile, rose to be the eighth-leading cause of death last year amid lower uptake of the flu ...

Americans died at the lowest rate on record in 2025. Did life expectancy hit all-time high?

New mortality data from the federal government suggests that life expectancy probably hit another record high in 2025, as ...

Benjamin Franklin famously said, “Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; ...

The CDC comes up with the rate of deaths for the American population based on death records received and processed by its ...

Drug overdose deaths fell 14% from 2024, according to the CDC.

As of 2019, working-age adults in rural areas were 43% more likely to die from natural causes than their urban counterparts.