This story has been updated to include additional comment from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC's National Center for Health Statistics' most recent report put the U.S. maternal ...

There are about 66,630 regulated long-term care facilities in the U.S., according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Together, these institutions, which include adult day care centers serve ...

Approximately 38 percent of adults in the United States aged 18 years and over and nearly 12 percent of U.S. children aged 17 years and under use some form of complementary and alternative medicine ...

Americans spent $33.9 billion out-of-pocket on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) over the previous 12 months, according to a 2007 government survey 1. CAM is a group of diverse medical and ...

Mental illness affects more than 50 million Americans. A large percentage of people go without treatment for mental illness every year. Cost is the biggest reason people go without the help they need; ...

The CDC does not list “medical error” as a cause of death in its annual mortality statistics. But according to researchers from Johns Hopkins University, medical errors are the third leading cause of ...

Although considerable uncertainty remains, the COVID-19 pandemic and public health emergency are expected to continue to influence the near-term outlook for national health spending and enrollment.