Death Rate Rises For First Time In Years in United States

A new report shows that more Americans are dying. According to new federal data, for the first time in many years, the overall death rate ticked up in 2015. Experts will analyze the data a little more thoroughly before they can say where and in which groups the deaths rates rose. The initial data for 2015 from the National Center for Health Statistics, however, shows the adjusted death rate went up from 723 deaths per 100,000 people in 2014 to nearly 730 deaths per 100,000 in 2015. the NCHS, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in its report, "Among the causes of death included in this report, increases between 2014 and 2015 in both crude and age-adjusted death rates were observed for Alzheimer's disease, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, chronic lower respiratory diseases, hypertension, Parkinson's disease, septicemia, homicide, firearm-related injury, suicide, and unintentional injury and drug overdose."