WEDNESDAY, May 3, 2023 (HealthDay News) From 2016 to 2021, there was an increase in age-adjusted drug overdose death rates involving fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine, according to a May Vital Statistics Rapid Release report, a publication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Merianne Rose Spencer, M.P.H., from the National Center for
TUESDAY, May 24, 2022 (HealthDay News) In 2021, there was an increase in the number of births and in the general fertility rate in the United States, marking the
The birth rate and fertility rate in the United States fell to a new historic lows in 2020 although some believed the pandemic would lead to a baby boom, according to a provisional report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics.