ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women ...

The increase is “driven primarily by the premature death of people who would have received retirement benefits.” ...

Five years after COVID-19 first emerged, the United States is still grappling with the aftereffects of the pandemic that ...

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows.

Driven by rising rates of high blood pressure, obesity, and other key risk factors, heart disease remains the leading cause ...

San Diego County teenagers continue to pay a high price during the current flu season, with a fourth influenza-related death ...

Mackenzie McCree, New Bedford's Filmmaker of the Year, has used her talents to tell many stories — including a painful family story from 1985.

If people had been aware of the existence of bacteria and their role in causing the Black Death in the 14th century, as well ...

Hutchinson residents are no strangers to pivoting with the pandemic, and the Hutchinson Center for the Arts did just that in 2020. A report to the Hutchinson City Council for its Oct. 26 meeting ...

when the COVID-19 pandemic drove maternal deaths to a 50-year high, the Associated Press reported. However, while maternal ...

Black women in the U.S. died at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women around the time of childbirth in 2023, but maternal mortality fell below prepandemic levels overall.