The Covid death toll was greater in 2021 than in 2020 despite the roll-out of vaccines. Why? In part, because pandemic mitigation efforts be...

Who is the longest-lived human being on record? Her name was Jeanne Calment. She was born in Arles, France in 1875. She died 122 years and 1...

Support for the death penalty varies by religious affiliation, according to a Pew Research Center survey. Overall, 60 percent of Americans a...

The 60 percent majority of Americans support the death penalty for people convicted of murder, according to a Pew Research Center survey. P...

Twenty-two percent of all Americans know someone who died from Covid-19, according to PRRI's 2020 American Values Survey. Blacks are mor...

Married people have strikingly lower death rate than the never-married, divorced, or widowed, according to a report by the National Center f...

There were 65,000 violent deaths in the United States in 2016, according to the CDC. The 62 percent majority were suicides, followed by homi...

Your chances of dying are much higher in some states than in others, according to a National Center for Health Statistics' report analyz...

Hispanics have lower death rates and a longer life expectancy than non-Hispanic Whites. This is true despite the fact that Hispanics are poo...

"The loss of one or both parents can profoundly affect a person's life," say Census Bureau researchers Zachary Scherer and Ros...

Dementia is a major cause of death. We know that. The government's mortality reports show Alzheimer's disease to be the 6th leading ...

For the first time in a long time, home is the most likely place of death. Among people who died in 2016, the 30.5 percent plurality died at...

Many Americans celebrated Father's Day yesterday by remembering their father rather than spending time with him. Only 45 percent of adul...

The CDC's report on the rising number of suicides in the United States was released on June 8,  just days after Kate Spade committed sui...

Older Americans are increasingly likely to die from a fall, the CDC reports. The annual number of people aged 65 or older who die because of...

Among weather-related deaths, cold is a bigger killer than heat, flood, storm, or lightning, according to an analysis by the CDC. In the 200...

The better educated you are, the longer you are likely to live. What are the reasons for the educational disparity in mortality? A study pub...

More than 146,000 Americans died from "accidents (unintentional injuries)" in 2015, according to the National Center for Health St...

Dying has changed. It has become a slow process rather than a sudden event, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. "Due to medical ...

Homicide is one of the leading causes of death for women under age 45, reports the CDC. What are the characteristics of women who become hom...