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A major international analysis has found breast cancer diagnoses are on track to climb from 2.3 million a year to 3.5 million by 2050, while annual deaths from the disease are projected to jump 44 percent, to almost 1.4 million.

More than a quarter of healthy years lost to breast cancer are due to lifestyle factors such as red meat intake and smoking, according to the largest study of its kind.

An estimated 2.3 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer globally in 2023, resulting in 764,000 deaths, according to the study.

Según el Estudio de la Carga Global de Enfermedades (GBD) del Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), en México se registraron 50,073 muertes prematuras durante 2021 relacionadas con la contaminación del aire.

Attenzione al cardio-nefro-metabolismo. In occasione della Giornata Mondiale del Malato, arriva il richiamo di pazienti e specialisti per una maggior attenzione alla salute renale.

This innovative regional hub aims to serve as a pivotal analytical engine for Southeast Asia and its neighboring regions, delivering rigorous scientific evidence that policymakers can effectively translate into robust, actionable health policies.

Dr. Tara Narula, ABC News Chief Medical Correspondent, shared key findings from IHME’s recent study in JAMA on Good Morning America.

U.S. life expectancy fell in recent years because of a surge in drug overdoses and deaths from COVID-19. But life expectancy has been slowly inching back up since the pandemic ended in 2023 and drug overdoses began falling.

Data from the Global Burden of Disease study, published by the Seattle-based Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, showed a 79 per cent increase in early-onset cancer worldwide between 1990 and 2019.

As of 2023, an estimated 569 million people worldwide were living with chronic respiratory disease, with more than half of these cases attributable to asthma. However, most deaths occurred in patients with COPD, highlighting significant differences in disease burden across conditions.

Global health funding plummeted by an estimated $10.5 billion (a 21% decline) between 2024 and 2025, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Figures from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) show that anxiety disorders shot up in many countries since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.

New estimates show that between 1990 and 2023, the prevalence of Chagas disease has decreased, with more cases being reported in nonendemic regions and among older populations.

Polluted air contributed to 7.9 million deaths worldwide, or about one in every eight deaths. Those numbers come from the State of Global Air 2025 report, which tracks how breathing dirty air harms people in every region.

In 2023, over 1 billion people aged 15 and older were estimated to have experienced sexual assault during childhood and 608 million girls and women in this age group have endured physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner.