Knowing patient survival rates is critical to informing research and care delivery, particularly in the oncology space. But what if survival data is inaccurate or incomplete? Well, that could ...

Who in the government gets to know when you're dead? That's the fundamental question in a congressionally-requested report on how death records are shared across government for benefits administration ...

There's been a general lack of data on births, deaths and the associated medical histories and circumstances for most people around the world. The Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health Initiative ...

(TNS) — Missing records from North Carolina have delayed the release of federal data on causes of death across the country, information that experts say is critical to understanding the health of the ...

The age-adjusted death rate was 884.2 and 632.8 per 100,000 population among males and females, respectively. HealthDay News — In 2023, there was a provisional total of 3,090,582 deaths in the US, ...

Annalisa (Nalis) Merelli is a contributing writer at STAT focused on boys’ and men’s health. Too many new moms are dying in the U.S. Exactly how many, however, is harder to establish. After years of ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – “Should the decision to call for an investigation in the cause of an unnatural death be placed in the hands of a public official or in those of a person who is trained in the medical ...

New data from the National Vital Statistics System show differences in mortality rates based on sex, race, and comorbidities in the United States. The National Center for Health Statistics’ (NCHS) ...

Kathy Eagar does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

Information about deaths is a key part of administering programs like Social Security, but how data is collected and shared comes with questions. Who in the government gets to know when you're dead?