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 ...

Data: CDC's National Health Statistics Report; Chart: Axios Visuals Roughly 1 in 7 Americans 65 and older are meeting federal physical activity guidelines during their leisure time, a new report from ...

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 ...