Pollution Responsible For 9 Million Deaths Each Year, Study Finds

Topline Pollution was responsible for more than 9 million deaths around the world in 2019, according to a study published in Lancet Planetary Health on Tuesday, equivalent to one in every six, a growi...

2021 Traffic Deaths Hit Highest Level In Over 15 Years

Topline More than 42,900 people died in motor vehicle traffic crashes last year, the highest number since 2005, and a 10% surge from the year before, a government agency said on Tuesday, as traffic fa...

U.S. Traffic Deaths Likely Jumped 10.5% Last Year To Highest Since 2005

Fatal Collision Sign Next To Scene Of Accident On Busy Road getty Traffic deaths in the United States surged in 2021 to their highest level in 16 years, according to a preliminary estimate released Tu...

U.S. traffic deaths hit 16-year high in 2021, DOT says

Investigators look over the scene of a crash between an SUV and a semi-truck full of gravel near Holtville, California on March 2, 2021. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images More people died on U.S....

Covid-19 Outbreak Rips Through North Korea As Reports 15 More Deaths And Nearly 300,000 New Cases

Topline North Korea reported 15 new Covid-19 deaths along with hundreds of thousands of new patients with “fevers” as the country says it has mobilized millions of health and other workers to fight it...

Vaccines Could Have Prevented At Least 318,000 Deaths, Study Suggests

Topline A minimum of 318,000 Covid-19 related deaths spanning from January 2021 to April 2022 would have been avoided with readily available vaccines, based on research spearheaded by Brown University...

Here Is What One Million Covid Deaths In The U.S. Looks Like

According to official estimates from the CDC, Johns Hopkins University and other organizations that collect public health data, the United States is nearing the grim milestone of one million deaths fr...

Border Patrol Agents Have Missed Thousands Of Immigrant Deaths

A U.S. Border Patrol patch on a border agent’s uniform in McAllen, Texas. (SUZANNE … [+] CORDEIRO/AFP/Getty Images) AFP/Getty Images A new government report shows Border Patrol agents sign...

Weekly Covid deaths have dropped to lowest since March 2020, WHO says

The World Health Organization on Tuesday said weekly new Covid deaths have fallen to the lowest level since March 2020, but warned a global decline in testing for the virus could hinder its efforts to...

Nearly 240,000 Covid-19 Deaths Could Have Been Prevented With Vaccines, Study Finds

Topline Nearly 240,000 deaths resulting from Covid-19 since June 2021 could have been avoided with “timely” vaccinations, new research from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows, as the U.S. approaches a...

Shanghai reports first Covid deaths since start of latest lockdowns

Shanghai, China’s largest city and the one hit hardest by the latest Covid outbreak, announced another round of mass virus testing that’s set to end Thursday, April 21. Str | Afp | Getty I...

Shanghai Reports First Covid Deaths From Current Outbreak As Case Counts Continue To Remain High

Topline Shanghai on Monday reported the first deaths linked to the city’s ongoing Covid-19 outbreak—China’s worst since the start of the pandemic—as the continued rise in cases in eastern China and th...

Covid still a global health emergency even as deaths fall: WHO

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO), speaks during a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, December 20, 2021. Denis Balibouse | Reuters The World Heal...

Veru’s stock nearly triples after oral COVID-19 treatment leads to ‘statistically meaningful’ reduction in deaths

Shares of Veru Inc. VERU, +182.30% rocketed 175% toward a 13-month high in afternoon trading Monday, after biopharmaceutical company announced positive results from its Phase 3 trial of its oral COVID...

Deaths Outpaced Births In A Record 73% Of U.S. Counties In 2021 As Covid Raged

Topline In 2021, deaths exceeded births in 55.5% of metro areas and in a record 73% of counties, with the coronavirus pandemic exacerbating long-running trends of aging populations and falling fertili...

500 Or 10,000 Deaths? Russian Media Finally Seems To Report Dire Troop Casualty Numbers—And Then Deletes Them

Topline A Russian tabloid newspaper on Monday published and subsequently deleted a report claiming nearly 10,000 Russian soldiers had died since the country first invaded Ukraine last month—a far grea...

Mainland China Reports First Coronavirus Deaths in More Than a Year as Omicron Spreads

HONG KONG—China reported its first deaths from Covid-19 in the mainland in more than a year as the country battles a surge of Omicron infections across the country. Two patients died of Covid-19 in th...

U.S. far from normal with Covid deaths much higher than flu: report

Nurse practitioner Deborah Beauplan administers a COVID-19 swab test at a drive-thru testing site set up for Suffolk County, New York. Newsday | Getty Images The U.S. has a long way to go before the p...

Arthritis Drug Cuts Covid Deaths 13% Among Severe Cases, Study Finds

Topline Baricitinib, an anti-inflammatory drug used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, cut hospitalized Covid-19 patients’ risk of death by 13%, regardless of what other Covid treatments were also being u...

U.S. Covid Deaths Top 900,000 On Omicron Surge

Topline More than 900,000 Americans have died of Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic, according to Johns Hopkins University, a bleak milestone as the country continues to battle a surge of cases ...

1.2 Million Opioid Overdose Deaths Expected In U.S. And Canada By 2029, Experts Warn

Topline More than 1.2 million people will die from opioid overdoses in the U.S. and Canada by 2029 if no action is taken to tackle the growing epidemic, warns a group of leading health experts on the ...

U.S. Takes On ‘Crisis’ Of Rising Crash Deaths With Bold, Nationwide Strategy

Road fatalities spiked in the first half of 2021, the largest six-month increase in traffic crash … [+] deaths ever recorded in the federal reporting system’s history. Corbis via Getty Images Th...

Shocking Twists And Gruesome Deaths

‘Yellowjackets’ ends Season 1 with some crazy twists and a shocking cliffhanger. Credit: Showtime Yellowjackets came out of the blue. It wasn’t on my radar at all until it aired and it’s q...

United has had zero Covid-related deaths among vaccinated employees for 8 weeks, CEO says

United Airlines pilot Steve Lindland receives a COVID-19 vaccine from RN Sandra Manella at United’s onsite clinic at O’Hare International Airport on March 09, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois. Sc...