The US infant mortality rate fell to an all-time low. That's still worse than other nations

The nation's infant mortality dropped to a new all-time low in 2025, largely thanks to medical advancements and public health ...
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A TB death-prediction tool has worked in Tamil Nadu. It’s yet to be picked up for national rollout

ICMR-NIE's TB death-prediction tool, described in a study published in British medical journal The BMJ Open, estimates the ...
Nature

Trends and annual percentage changes in tuberculosis mortality estimated by Joinpoint regression and age-period-cohort analyses, Taiwan, 1978–2022

Tuberculosis (TB) was a public health problem in the past and remained a threat worldwide, including in Taiwan. We aimed to estimate annual percentage changes (APC) in TB mortality and the ...
Nature

Increasing risk of mass human heat mortality if historical weather patterns recur

The potential death toll of exceptional extreme heat events is crucial for climate risk analysis and adaptation planning but may not be captured by existing projections. Here we combine machine ...