Climate change deaths are largely underreported as the crisis impacts millions and strains an already overburdened healthcare ...

Men are much more likely than women to die early from the world's 20 leading health problems, a new global study shows.

A global study published in PLOS Medicine examined sex-disaggregated data on hypertension, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS across 204 ...

A global modeling study in eBioMedicine links phthalate exposure from plastics, especially DEHP metabolites, to over 356,000 ...

A new study finds that a fertility rate of 2.7 children per woman, not 2.1, may be needed to avoid long-term population ...

Plastic has long been part of everyday life, from food containers to medical tools. But in recent years, scientists have ...

More American women died around the time of childbirth last year than in 2023, according to provisional data released by the ...

A set of chemicals found in food packaging, plastics, and lotions and shampoos has been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths from heart disease, according to a study published Tuesday in the ...

Pope Francis died of a stroke and irreversible heart failure, according to the official death certificate released by the Vatican on Monday (April 21). The certificate, signed by Vatican doctor ...

Read more about the conclave. A religious leader in the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation expressed deep condolences for the death of Pope Francis, describing the pontiff as a close friend.

This equates to a child mortality rate of 9 deaths per 100,000 population, and an infant mortality rate of 3.9 deaths per 1,000 live births (see Table 1 of our accompanying dataset). The child and ...

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff, died Monday. People from around the world, including his home country of Argentina, reacted to his passing. He was 88.