Another reader felt that the biggest benefits of a falling human population will be to the planet itself: “Less pollution, less deforestation, less mass extinctions of other species, etc., etc.

We extracted country-specific incidence and mortality rates for 33 cancers from 185 countries using data from Global Cancer Observatory (GLOBOCAN) 2020. Mortality-to-incidence ratios (MIRs) were ...

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 ...

The neonatal mortality rate in the US decreased from 1999 to 2022, with deaths from interstitial emphysema and related conditions showing the steepest decline, yet mortality from slow fetal growth and ...

Grave warnings of a crisis in maternal deaths are being slightly eroded by articles suggesting that advocates overreached and that the “crisis” was primarily a ...

The United States infant mortality rate rose by 3% in 2022, the first increase in 20 years, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The data, released Thursday, ...

Michigan’s infant mortality rate reached the lowest point on record in 2023. The state reported 607 infant deaths within their first year of life, compared to 99,178 live births, for a rate of 6.1 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cancer mortality rates fell between 2018 and 2022 but at a reduced pace from previous years. Cancer incidence ...

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 ...