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Most American men who die by suicide do not have any known history of mental health problems. So, what is to blame?
Two ICU physicians offer a new approach to stopping it.
There's a fatal prion infection killing deer and elk across North America.
In 200 years, the mortality rate for children under the age of five (per 1,000 live births) has dropped from 40% to 3.7%.
Deaths of despair are skyrocketing in the U.S., while at the same time, they are falling in other wealthy countries. What are we doing wrong?
Robinson v. California helped to established a rehabilitative ideal: addiction should be dealt with as a therapeutic matter.
This isn't America's first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.
Wyoming's roads are nine times deadlier than Ireland's. California's road safety is on par with Romania's.
A doctor once joked that statins will be added to the water supply. Humor aside, the data shows that statins really are a "wonder drug."
What you need to know about this smallpox cousin.
Researchers believe they have found a single point mutation in an infection-sensing gene that causes the autoimmune disorder.
A new wave of preventative cancer vaccines are set to begin trials.
A study finds prescription medications and dangerous unlisted ingredients in ordinary supplements.
SIDS deaths have decreased worldwide, but research has yet to solve this medical mystery.
Morbid fatality statistics on digital highway signs seem to distract drivers, thus increasing the number of car crashes.
Shoving platelet-rich plasma up your nose might restore your sense of smell after COVID. But whether it actually works still needs to be sniffed out.
Older adults who napped at least once or for more than an hour a day had a 40% higher chance of developing Alzheimer’s than those who napped less.
Mutations that confer malaria resistance occur more frequently in people who live in regions where the disease is endemic.
COVID-19 and other microbes have shed light on disease spillover from animals to humans, but we can also spillback disease to wildlife.
Hormonal birth control for women may elevate the risk of depression and suicide, but so does pregnancy itself.
The Poisson distribution has everyday applications in science, finance, and insurance. To compare the results of some biomedical studies, more people ought to be familiar with it.
The catastrophic birth defect anencephaly affects about 1 in 4,600 pregnancies in the U.S. It is largely preventable with folic acid supplements.
The most feared sexually transmitted disease (STD) of the last half-millennium was usually named after foreigners, often the French.
Treatments for depression have significantly improved since the 1980s. So why isn't the rate of depression decreasing?
A divergence in mortality rates between U.S. states suggests that public health policy plays a substantial role in how long people live.
We don't know with 100% certainty where SARS-CoV-2 first came from or how it first infected humans. But not all options are equally likely.
Americans have a lower life expectancy than people in other rich countries despite paying much more for healthcare. We explore the number of factors which might explain this difference.
There is no rule that will force Omicron or another COVID variant to become less deadly over time, but there is reason for hope.
The early colonists thought they were being pulled by God into a void left by plague.