Statistics find that over three million people die in the United States every year. Mortality is undeniably a difficult subject, but awareness is important for many reasons. The Centers for Disease ...

Cardiovascular diseases remain the leading cause of death in Europe, claiming 1.7 million lives annually, the head of the ...

Since its emergence in 2020, Covid has jumbled the list of the 10 leading causes of deaths in the United States. It roared into third place in 2020 but has now fallen to 10th place, the National ...

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) was the ninth-leading cause of death worldwide in 2023, accounting for 1.48 million deaths. Its global age-standardized prevalence increased from 3.5% to 14.2%, according ...

In 2024, 17,711 females died and 20,795 males died in Louisiana, according to newly released data from the Centers for ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Diseases of the heart topped the 2022 list, and chronic lower respiratory diseases occupied the sixth spot. In ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released its annual list of causes of death in the U.S. The leading cause of death has changed in recent years. COVID-19 has plummeted to No.10 ...

Abortion remains the leading cause of death worldwide for the seventh year in a row, according to statistics compiled by ...

A computer illustration of human pegivirus, an RNA (ribonucleic acid) virus scientists believe may be linked to Parkinson's disease. Illustration by Kateryna Kon, Science Photo Library More than 10 ...

The cause of rare diseases is increasingly being detected through genome sequencing, which involves reading the entire human DNA by first breaking it into small pieces -- short reads. Scientists found ...

Most mutations that cause disease by swapping one amino acid out for another do so by making the protein less stable, according to a major study of human protein variants that was published in Nature ...

When it comes to neurodegenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and certain forms of dementia, ...