For Andy Wicks, thinking about life’s big questions is a part of his identity and a part of his legacy. Wicks, a business ethics professor at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, ...

Patients of emergency department (ED) physicians with higher admission rates showed no improvement in 30-day mortality, despite their physicians ordering more tests and contributing to longer hospital ...

The neonatal mortality rate in the US decreased from 1999 to 2022, with deaths from interstitial emphysema and related conditions showing the steepest decline, yet mortality from slow fetal growth and ...

Severe MRSA infections can be fatal. MRSA mortality rates tend to be highest in older people. Certain underlying health conditions can also increase the risk of death. Staphylococcus aureus is a ...

In a recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, researchers used provisional data on deaths to examine mortality trends that can inform public health interventions and policies. Provisional data ...

I recently came across the phrase “Death is not the end.” It wasn’t a reference to the Christian promise of resurrection, but a tagline for zombie movies—those stories of supernaturally reanimated ...

Black infants died at a rate of 10.9 deaths per 1,000 live births, the CDC said. Infant mortality rates remained relatively unchanged from 2022 to 2023, but racial and ethnic disparities still persist ...

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