Death rate steadily rising for middle-aged white people

Monday, November 2, 2015 - 18:00 in Health & Medicine

The U.S. death rate has been falling for decades, but researchers have detected one group in which the rates have been steadily ticking up — middle-aged white people. Suicides and deaths from drug overdose and alcohol abuse are being blamed. Deaths rates for other races have continued to fall,...

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