In theory, the death penalty is reserved for “the worst of the worst.” In practice, it is very different. People who are ...

Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death in men, and some experts project the number of cases to rise over the coming decades. But in a recent Urologic Oncology article, ...

Despite speculation about a possible connection between Iowa farmers’ exposure to chemicals and the state’s steep cancer rate ...

Sivelestat significantly reduced the incidence of postoperative ARDS, lowered 90-day mortality, and suppressed inflammatory biomarkers linked to lung injury.

In people with type 2 diabetes in the world's richest countries, deaths from cardiovascular disease are declining while ...

In people with type 2 diabetes in the world's richest countries, deaths from cardiovascular disease are declining while mortality ​from dementia is on the rise, a large analysis has found.

About 2,208 unhoused residents died in the county in 2024, roughly 300 fewer than the 2,500 reported the previous year, the ...

A PNAS study analyzing US mortality from 1979 to 2023 reveals that life expectancy stagnation reflects both worsening outcomes in post-1950 birth cohorts and a broad mortality deterioration beginning ...

Despite major advances in medicine, U.S. life expectancy barely budged in the 2010s, and it still lags that of other wealthy nations. Researchers have pointed to rising "deaths of despair"—drug ...

For the first time in the decade that homeless mortality has been tracked in Los Angeles County, fewer people have died on the streets and in shelters, the Department of Public Health reported Tuesday ...

Despite progress, 2024 data suggests an ongoing humanitarian disaster, with more than six unhoused people dying every day ...