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

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The Black Death, a deadly bubonic plague pandemic in the 14th century, caused widespread havoc, claiming around 200 million ...

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.

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 ...

While violent crime and poverty rates have declined, struggles with overdose deaths and homeless remain, Pew's annual "State ...

A new report on cancer in the US shows a steady decline in overall deaths from 2001 through 2022. The rate of diagnoses among ...