Washington saw a high number of whooping cough cases in 2024, with more than 2,000 reported, according to the state Department of Health.

A Nigerian man has been extradited to the U.S. and charged with causing the death of a South Carolina teen who took his own ...

In 2022, chronic lower respiratory disease was the sixth highest cause of death in the U.S., according to results published ...

Violence was the most common cause of death in pregnancy, with the incidence of death by violence doubling between 2005 and 2022. Violent death was also more frequent among pregnant women than ...

Persistent Tobacco Smoking from Childhood May Cause Heart Damage ... and availability of the three most commonly prescribed and misused controlled substances for teens, a new ...

Michael Nieves became the 13th person to die on Rikers Island in 2022 in a suspected suicide, The New York Times reported. A ...

Two teen girls have been arrested in connection to a 13-year-old’s death, the Columbia Police Department announced on Saturday.

Cancer diagnoses are expected to exceed two million in 2025, with approximately 618,120 deaths predicted, according to the American Cancer Society’s annual cancer trends report.

Two teens are accused in brutal murder of 13-year-old South Carolina girl found in burned home - Ka’Niyah Baker, 13, found dead inside a vacant house after a fire in Columbia ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, made disputed claims before the ...

This makes cancer the second most common cause of death. Yet, around 40 per cent of cancer deaths can be linked to ‘controlled risk factors’ such as alcohol, smoking, poor diet or lack of ...