The final mortality statistics for 2020 were recently released by the National Center for Health Statistics. They document what we already k...

Drug use is a common family problem. Nearly one-third of Americans (32 percent) report having had a drug problem in their family, according ...

Life expectancy in the United States was no higher in 2018 than it was in 2010, which makes the 2010s (so far) the first decade in modern hi...

Millions of Americans frequently take a medication to help them fall or stay asleep, according to the National Health Interview Survey. Over...

The third leading cause of death in the United States is what the CDC calls "unintentional injuries"—or accidents. Because a growi...

Rural areas have been hit hard by the opioid epidemic. The injury is, in part, self-inflicted. Primary care physicians in rural areas are mo...

In the United States, women live longer than men. But the female advantage has been shrinking for decades—until now. In 2016 the life expect...

Big, big news: Life expectancy at birth fell for the second year in a row in 2016, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. ...

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

Millions of Americans are taking antidepressants, according to data collected by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Among...

Nearly half of Americans (47%) took at least one prescription drug in the past 30 days, according to the 2011–14 National Health and Nutriti...

Drug overdose deaths are surging. The age-adjusted death rate nearly tripled between 1999 and 2015, rising from 6.1 to 16.3 deaths per 100,0...

The U.S. health care system may be uniquely inefficient compared to other countries, according to a National Bureau of Economic Research stu...

The experts are alarmed. The rapid rise in drug overdose deaths has revealed a shortcoming in the International Classification of Diseases, ...

Most Americans have a personal connection to prescription painkiller abuse, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey. The 56 percent m...