(Reuters) - COVID-19 was the primary or contributing cause of 378,048 deaths in the United States last year, with a particularly high toll among the elderly, according to two reports released on ...

Deaths in the region have doubled in the last five months. In the United States and other Western nations, the toll from COVID-19 is finally beginning to ease, at least in part, because of the rapid ...

Rural counties with "worst possible public health setup you could imagine." A South Dakota doctor is moonlighting as a newspaper columnist, urging readers to protect themselves against the virus that ...

Anchorage School District school nurse Kristin Studley (right) administers the Moderna Covid-19 vaccination to Rae Hancock (left). Hancock was one of 771 people who received vaccines at the ASD ...

The United States has reached a turning point in its public health story. For the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began, the nation’s overall death rate has returned to pre-2020 levels, ...

For the first time since the pandemic began, COVID-19 dropped out of the nation's top 10 causes of death in 2024, new U.S. government data shows. Overall U.S. death rates also fell to their lowest ...

"The tablet gave many patients a last, tenuous lifeline to their loved ones before they lost their ability to say goodbye." Source: Illustration by Yoo Jung Kim, M.D. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic ...

The death rate in the United States returned to pre-pandemic levels in 2024 as Covid-19 fell out of the top 10 leading causes of death, according to a report published Wednesday by the US Centers for ...

Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

Death statistics for 2025 are not finalized, but preliminary data suggest that around 3.05 million deaths have been recorded.