US youth firearm mortality reduced by stricter gun control — new study

Four states with stricter laws restricting gun access successfully reversed upward trajectories in youth gun deaths over the past decade, according to a study published in the American Journal of Medicine Open

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/959249

Study of wealthy nations finds American women most likely to die of preventable causes, pregnancy complications - CNN

The US also had the highest maternal mortality rate: 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births, more than triple the rate of any other country studied. When looking only at Black maternal mortality, the rate jumped to 55.3 deaths per 100,000 live births...

https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/health/us-women-health-care/index.html

The coronavirus pandemic has caused nearly 300,000 more deaths than expected in a typical year - The Washington Post

..." The number of people dying from this pandemic is higher than we think," said Steven Woolf, director emeritus of the Center on Society and Health at Virginia Commonwealth University, who has conducted independent analyses of excess mortality. "This study shows it. Others have as well."...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-excess-deaths/2020/10/20/1e1d77c6-12e1-11eb-ba42-ec6a580836ed_story.html