U.S. Death Rate at All-Time Low: CDC WEDNESDAY, March 16, 2011 (HealthDay News) — The death rate in the United States reached an all-time low in 2009, the 10th straight year of decline, dropping 2.3 percent from 2008, federal health officials report. “There is basically good news,” said lead author Kenneth Kochanek, a statistician at the […]