New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly or indirectly with the COVID-19 pandemic (described as “excess mortality”) between 1 January ...

India likely recorded almost two million extra deaths in 2021, the deadliest year of the Covid-19 pandemic, than it did in the preceding few years. It also recorded 81,070 more deaths because of the ...

Among the notable figures who died in a sometimes polarizing 2024, many championed justice, equal rights and political freedom. By William McDonald William McDonald is the obituaries editor of The ...

More than 107,600 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the highest annual death toll on record, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday. Overdose deaths increased 15% in ...

Type 2 diabetes and hypertension were the major contributors to chronic kidney disease-related deaths among women in 2021. (HealthDay News) — Chronic kidney disease (CKD) cases and deaths in women ...