Death rate for children under 5 continues decline

It is unacceptable that 8.8 million children die every year before their fifth birthday — 40 percent of them in India, Nigeria and Congo, the U.N. children's agency said Thursday.

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Study: Lots of red meat increases mortality risk

The largest study of its kind finds that older Americans who eat large amounts of red meat and processed meats face a greater risk of death from heart disease and cancer. The federal study of more than half a million men and women bolsters prior evidence of the health risks of diets laden with red meat like hamburger and processed meats like hot dogs, bacon and cold cuts.

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Warming tied to doubling of tree mortality

The mortality rate of old-growth forests across the West has more than doubled in recent decades, and those forests are now losing more trees than they gain, according to a new study that identified the most probable cause as warming temperatures.

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UNICEF: child mortality down 27 percent since 1990

The U.N. Children's Fund said Friday the number of children who die before the age of five has declined by 27 percent over the last two decades, and the rate is expected to continue falling.

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U.S. Newborn Survival Rate Ranks Low

America may be the world's superpower, but its survival rate for newborn babies ranks near the bottom among modern nations, better only than Latvia.

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First Hours Critical for 3rd World Babies

Worldwide about 4 million babies die in their first month of life — about half of those in the first 24 hours, a global report on newborn mortality says.

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Test Determines Your Risk of Death

If you're 50 or older, this test developed by researchers at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center attempts to calculate your risk of death within four years. Of course, it's not foolproof, but the researchers say it can give you a rough idea of your survival chances. The test appears in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association:

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The US spends more money on mothers' health than any other nation, yet women there are more likely to die in childbirth than in most other developed countries, according to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and WHO.

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The average Briton cheats death fives times during their lifetime, that's if you believe a new mortality report from More Than Life Insurance.

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Life, Love and Truth - What's Death Got to Do With It?

This post isn't about the next life – we'll discuss that later. Rather, this is about the doorway called death, and what it affirms about life, love and truth.

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Fifty-three million cases of Alzheimers disease world-wide and over five million in the United States. An active and curious mind, a healthy diet and routine exercise could prevent it. There is no known cure for this degenerative disease.

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American youths suffer among the industrialized world's worst rates of infant mortality, teenage pregnancy and child poverty, even though the United States spends more per child than better-performing countries such as Switzerland, Japan and the Netherlands, a new survey indicate …

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A few years ago Arriaza launched a daring new theory: the Chinchorro were victims of arsenic poisoning. "I was reading a Chilean newspaper that talked about pollution and it had a map of arsenic and lead pollution, and it said arsenic caused abortions.

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Seeded by Shaheen Sultan Dhanji

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Experts have identified a highly contagious and lethal new viral disease, which infected five people in Southern Africa. With some similarities to Ebola, the so-called Lujo virus may have passed to people from rodents. More Articles

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A first-ever report card on nearly 100 hospitals ranks them according to 39 patient safety and quality of care indicators.

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The OECD report is out. Like a pack of hungry wallabies, the media pounced immediately on the only item worth reporting: the French eat and sleep longer hours than anyone, and yet they're among the thinnest.

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Combing thru the data on GMO foods, I found this one that suggests eating GMO foods thru one's pregnancy can result in underweight babies.

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Excerpt: Since ABC's "Nightline" aired a story last week about Salma Hayek's goodwill trip to Sierra Leone, there has been a world-wide outpouring of reaction.

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Privatization kills, according to Lancet Medical Journal study

Feb. 10 -- Many in the West heralded the dissolution of the USSR as a victory for "democracy" and "freedom." Others saw it as an incontrovertible demonstration of the superiority of the capitalist system.

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Dramatic improvements in U.S. air quality over the last two decades have added 21 weeks to the life of the average American, researchers reported on Wednesday.

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In the US city of Pueblo in the state of Colorado there has been a sharp drop in the number of hospital admissions for heart attacks following the introduction of a law that made it illegal to smoke in public spaces and workplaces.

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Geographers create United States death map University of South Carolina geographers have produced a map of natural-hazard mortality in the United States.

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Alcohol may be a big part of a person's social group. A person may turn to alcohol to get relief from stress (which frequently backfires, because the drinking causes problems of its own). Sometimes alcohol is used to blot out feelings of depression or anxiety.

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A study published by researchers at Yeshiva University and its medical school, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, strongly suggests that regular attendance at religious services reduces the risk of death by approximately 20 percent.

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It should strike us as odd that we feel inclined to nod our heads in agreement to the twangy, sweetly discordant folk vocals of Iris Dement in "Let the Mystery Be," a humble paean about the hereafter.

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This deterioration in quality of life continues even after quitting. In fact, heavy smokers typically have the health-related quality of life of someone 10 years older than themselves, the researchers said.

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The geographical pattern of mortality in Great Britain over the past quarter century has been mapped for the first time, revealing how each of us is most likely to die depending on where we live.

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Way back in 1919 Sigmund Freud postulated his concept of the uncanny. In the (cleverly named) The Uncanny, Freud explored a problem of aesthetics—when something is both familiar and unknown the experience of viewing it can be strongly unsettling.

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People who have gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding after a stroke are more likely to die or become severely disabled than stroke sufferers with no GI bleeding, according to a study published in the August 6, 2008, online issue of Neurology.

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Climate change will have a "substantial" impact on human health in the coming decades, making wildfires and hurricanes more likely, cooking up more smog, and making summer heat waves longer, hotter and deadlier, according to a new report today from the Environmental Protection Ag …

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How do you make a smooth transition into retirement?

One of the highest suicide rates in the UK is among men of 65 years of age who are in retirement.

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