Alexander Tin is a digital reporter for CBS News based in the Washington, D.C. bureau. He covers federal public health agencies. Heart disease, cancer and unintentional injuries — a category of deaths ...

A steep drop in Covid-19 deaths helped the overall death rate in the United States fall 6% in 2023, according to provisional data published Thursday by the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

COVID-19 is no longer a top cause of death for Americans, dropping from fourth place in 2022 to 10th place last year. The disease was listed on 49,928 death certificates in 2023 — down from 186,552 in ...

As per report, only one-third of countries meet WHO standards for high-quality mortality reporting. Around half of the data ...