The risk of death is high at birth and during the first years of life, but it decreases through childhood until approximately the age of 10. It then begins a steady, exponential increase that ...

In a recent article published in Science Advances, researchers estimated all-cause excess mortality for the United States (US) between March 2020 and February 2022 to understand the impact of the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Former smokers had little to no excess cardiovascular mortality 20 to 29 years after quitting. Sustained ...

About 1.1 million Americans have officially died from Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic, a number that may be familiar by now. But here’s a less familiar one: According to one tabulation by the ...

A coalition of insurance industry and healthcare leaders have formed a non-profit organization to help global insurers screen, test, and triage members to combat the baffling rise in excess mortality.

While UnitedHealth Care dominated health news headlines during 2025, excess mortality was the biggest health story of the year.

Over recent decades, there was a large variation in cyclone-related excess deaths by hurricane, state, county, year, and social vulnerability for counties in the United States, with 83 percent of ...

PARIS, France—There is no excess risk of death from noncardiac causes in patients with chronic coronary syndromes (CCS) treated with revascularization and medical therapy when compared with those who ...

Cardiff University provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation UK. No one would describe 2020 as normal. The coronavirus disrupted travel, employment and livelihoods. It pushed ...

The Covid-19 pandemic may have been three times deadlier than the reported death toll suggests. Researchers estimate in a new study that from the start of 2020 through the end of 2021, there have been ...