"External" causes like drug overdoses and homicide are killing young adults, but so are cardiometabolic diseases that previously mainly posed risks to older people. (Getty Creative) Americans are ...

There were over 1.5 million "missing Americans" in 2022 and 2023, deaths that would have been averted if US mortality rates matched those of peer countries. Excess US deaths have been increasing for ...

While the death rate for end-stage renal disease patients in the U.S. has declined since 2001, between 6,953 and 10,316 excess deaths in patients with ESRD occurred during the first seven months of ...

Excess deaths in the United States have continued to mount following the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to an early demise for hundreds of thousands, a new study says. More than 1.5 million "missing ...

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Americans are dying in young adulthood at alarming, and rising, rates, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open. The rate of excess deaths — fatalities beyond the expected number — ...