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What do most Americans die from? While heart disease is the No. 1 killer for people in the U.S. overall – it claimed 696,962 lives in 2020, the most recent year for which data is available – it...
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At least 49,449 people took their own lives in the United States in 2022, based on recently released provisional counts of death certificates by the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. The...
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Incidents of deadly gun violence recently hit a historic high in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 48,830 Americans were killed by firearms in 2021,...
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What counts as excessive drinking? Less than most people may think. People who drink a glass of wine every other night with dinner and maybe more on weekends are usually considered social drinkers....
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In recent years, the debate over gun control in the United States has centered largely on assault-style rifles, like the AR-15. Surging in popularity in recent years, AR-15 style firearms are now the...
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Across the United States, a growing concern looms as some states grapple with alarmingly high rates of overweight residents. Behind the stark statistics lies a complex web of factors contributing to...
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To much of the world, the United States is a country defined, at least in part, by its gun culture. And with good reason. The U.S., along with Guatemala and Mexico, is one of only three countries in...
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Since 2010, the odds of dying young in the United States have risen at an alarming pace. According to figures from the U.S. Social Security Administration’s actuarial life tables, the odds of...
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For much of 2020, many American mothers-to-be were hesitant to carry pregnancies to term as COVID-19 vaccines had yet to be developed and distributed, hospitals were filling with infected patients...
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In the early months of the coronavirus pandemic, many media outlets and researchers predicted that with all of those stay-at-home orders and work-stoppage mandates, couples would huddle together for...
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This article was written with the assistance of A.I. technology, and has been edited and fact-checked by Colman Andrews. West Virginia is the most obese state in America, according to the Centers for...
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Deaths in the U.S. have skyrocketed over the last several years. While the U.S. population rose just 1.4% from 2018 to 2021, the number of deaths rose 22.0% – the largest increase in mortality in...
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This article was written with the assistance of A.I. technology, and has been edited and fact-checked by Colman Andrews. Cancer is a disease that has been with us for a long time, and it is still a...
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Cancer has always been with us, at least back to the days when dinosaurs roamed the earth 80 million years ago (cancerous cells have been found in dinosaur fossils). Today, it is the second leading...
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The United States is the third-most populous country on Earth behind China and India, and, like them, it is growing. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there is one birth in the U.S. every nine...
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