A US ecologic study finds higher cancer mortality in counties closer to nuclear plants, but results reflect association and require cautious clinical interpretation.

In the British Journal of Cancer, a recent article from MSU SSRC Giles Distinguished Professor Emeritus Arthur G. Cosby and a team of researchers analyzed cancer deaths in almost 3,000 U.S. counties ...

Investigators examined age-standardized cancer mortality rates by “urbanicity” of county of residence to determine whether trends in mortality shifted from 1969 to 2023.

Life expectancy has long symbolized human progress, but what happens when that progress slows down or even reverses? Despite ...

Lower dietary iodine intake is significantly associated with an increased risk for mortality in female, but not male, kidney ...

For the first time in more than two decades, the United States saw an increase in infant mortality rates in 2022. According to a report released Wednesday by the National Center for Health Statistics, ...

In Matthew Roach's two years as vital statistics manager for the Arizona Department of Health Services, and 10 years previously in its epidemiology program, he has witnessed a trend in mortality rates ...

Florida’s Maternal Mortality Review Committee was created two decades ago to investigate why Florida moms are dying during ...