Life expectancy in the U.S. dropped nearly two years in 2020, from 78.8 years in 2019 to 77 years in 2020, according to the CDC’s finalized mortality report published Dec. 22. The decrease was largely ...

Data published Tuesday by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that rates of sexually transmitted diseases in the United States decreased in the early months of the COVID-19 ...

Every state saw a decline in life expectancy during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new federal data published Tuesday. The report, from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

ATLANTA, Ga. — Health officials are warning that the risk of a measles outbreak is mounting after more than 22 million infants missed their first vaccine dose in 2020. That’s 3 million more babies ...

Hawaii had the highest life expectancy and Mississippi had the lowest. Every state saw a decline in life expectancy during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new federal data ...