North American Community Hub Statistics
Cancer continues to shape the modern medical frontier. In 2025, the National Cancer Institute projected 2.04 million new cases and 618,000 deaths across the United States. Worldwide, the disease remains one of humanity’s greatest challenges, with nearly 20 million cases and 9.7 million deaths in 2022, figures expected to rise to 33 million annual cases … Read more
Cerebral palsy (CP) remains the most common motor disability in American children, yet few realize how widespread it truly is, or how deeply it affects families, healthcare systems, and long-term public health planning. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), roughly 1 in every 345 children is diagnosed with cerebral palsy, … Read more
When I first encountered remote-patient-monitoring (RPM) programs in a cardiology clinic, I thought: this could be the healthcare shift we’ve waited for. The global RPM market is already worth ~US $22.03 billion in 2024 and is projected to grow to US $110.71 billion by 2033, with a CAGR of 19.8 % between 2025–2033, according to … Read more
When New Delhi fired silver iodide into the clouds to make it rain, it was not praying for a monsoon. It was fighting for oxygen. Thirty million residents of one of the world’s most polluted capitals woke under a sky so toxic it turned daylight amber. In late October 2025, the city government and the … Read more
The office has been louder than usual, half the team buried in healthcare datasets, the other half arguing over which map projection makes the United States look less distorted. Between cups of cold coffee and late Slack messages, we managed to roll out a set of heavy updates that connect health, economics, and human reality … Read more
For years, U.S.–China trade tensions were seen as temporary turbulence in an otherwise interdependent global system. That illusion is gone. What began as a tariff skirmish in 2018 has hardened into a structural feature of the global economy. American companies now treat tariffs, export controls, and investment restrictions as permanent background conditions. Every boardroom discussion … Read more
For all the diversity of its people and regions, America still comes together in a few unmistakable ways each year, often around the dinner table, under twinkling lights, or in front of a glowing TV. According to the latest national survey, Christmas and Thanksgiving remain the country’s two most beloved holidays, far ahead of all … Read more
Health care spending is one of the fastest‑growing costs for American households. National per‑capita health spending was $10,191 in 2020, according to kff.org, but that headline figure hides wide variation across states. Some states have per‑capita health spending or insurance premiums that are nearly double the U.S. average, while others have relatively modest costs. Differences … Read more
When I first read that an artificial-intelligence model could predict over a thousand diseases up to twenty years before symptoms appear, my instinct was equal parts awe and unease. Predict the flu, sure, but cancer? Alzheimer’s? The time and place of a heart attack? That’s the claim behind Delphi-2M, a new European AI system built … Read more
Every year, roughly 75,000 to 100,000 children in the United States are adopted, whether through the public foster-care system, private domestic arrangements, or in-country processes. This figure has remained remarkably stable in recent years, even as the balance among adoption types has shifted. At the same time, another family-building route, surrogacy, has quietly expanded, producing … Read more