Some animals, such as the monkey who killed a monarch and the small stray dog called Laika, played a crucial role in turning ...

From ancient plagues to the recent COVID-19 pandemic, history is marked by devastating outbreaks. These epidemics and ...

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Experts from the Global Virus Network (GVN), which includes human and animal virologists from more than 40 countries, say the next pandemic could come from a familiar source: H5N1 avian influenza, ...

Disparities persist in Black maternal, infant healthMore U.S. women died around the time of childbirth last year, reversing ...

Before COVID, there was no blueprint for going about your business in the eerie quiet as a city teetered on the brink.

But just as grief has shaped our community so has life. So while the tragic deaths of icons like Michael Jackson and Chadwick ...

President Donald Trump will sign a pro-police executive order that offers additional federal support following the ...

A new study offers fresh insight into trends in maternal mortality in the United States. For the first time, the study disentangles genuine changes in health outcomes from shifts caused by how deaths ...

Related Cancer prevention not fully recovered from pandemic era declines ... "Ten years ago, there were big gaps in cancer ...

The findings highlight mixed trends in death and incidence rates across cancer types and based on race, ethnicity, and sex ...