Nipah virus, first identified in 1998, remains a deadly threat due to bat reservoirs, human practices, high fatality rates, ...

While incidence and mortality rates for most cancer types have been on the decline in the United States, cases of uterine ...

Negotiations are ongoing in New York to agree the latest UN political declaration on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) and ...

Heart attack survival odds have dramatically improved over the past 5 decades, but more people are dying from chronic cardiac ...

Over the past 50 years, the number of people dying from heart disease in the U.S. has dropped dramatically—especially from heart attacks. But while one chapter of this public health story is closing ...

Deadly viruses throughout history From the Ebola to COVID-19, diseases caused by viruses have killed humans throughout history. Viruses are much older than human beings, possibly even older than ...

California has already reported more measles cases this year than in all of 2024, a worrisome development that comes as the ...

The case fatality rate was impacted by the presence of high-risk features, and 0- to 9-year-olds with these features had a greater rate than 10- to 19-year-olds (25.3% vs. 13.9%), according to the ...

What are records? Since 2014, The Marshall Project has been curating some of the best criminal justice reporting from around the web. In these records you will find the most recent and the most ...

The case fatality rate (CFR) for dengue decreased this year, down to 0.26 percent per 100 cases as of Oct. 26, compared to 0.34 percent in 2023, the Department of Health (DOH) reported on Thursday.

The researchers found that fatal injury rates increased from 14.07 to 17.30 per 100,000 from 2011 to 2021. In contrast, there was a decrease in nonfatal injuries, from 11,592.56 to 5,359.73 per ...

Lemp said California Department of Public Health data show that California’s COVID-19 death rate early in the pandemic, from February 2020 to May 2021, was 1.7% overall and dropped to 1.11% when ...