Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with an increase in stroke-related mortality in older individuals, according to study results presented at the International Stroke ...

Patients 80 years of age and older experienced a 31% reduction in mortality and a 20% reduction in the risk of new coronary events when they participated in statin therapy, according to a March study ...

In 2024, the U.S. maternal mortality rate was 17.9 deaths per 100,000 live births — the lowest level since 2018, according to a CDC report published March 4. Five notes: 1. In 2024, there were 649 ...

Thirty-day mortality of patients with major trauma fell if they received intubation before hospital admission per prediction from a machine learning risk-stratifying model, according to data published ...

Maternal mortality rates in the United States have dropped to their lowest levels in recent years, according to new data ...

The U.S. maternal mortality rate fell to 17.9 deaths per 100,000 live births in 2024, statistically similar to the 2023 rate of 18.6 per 100,000, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control ...

Health insurance loss, changes "may undermine continuity of critical treatment," researche ...

A new machine learning model built using a simple and interpretable approach predicts in-hospital death in patients with acute liver failure and reveals top risk drivers.

Total RHTP allocations varied widely ($147M–$281M) and did not track state rural population size, yielding extreme per–rural-resident differences across baseline and variable components. Higher ...

In-hospital mortality was significantly higher for younger women vs. younger men after a first heart attack, with women ...

An advocate for proactive and unbiased health care, hopes to see maternal mortality drop. Charles Johnson IV spoke Thursday for Healthier Moms & Babies.