Deaths from malaria have returned to pre-Covid levels, but the World Health Organization (WHO) says progress remains too slow ...

She seemed, in the words of a researcher who observed her for years, the gold standard for healthy ageing. After almost a ...

A new study published in the journal of Nature Scientific Reports found that niacin consumption had a greater impact on ...

Continuous use of hypnotics for insomnia was associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality in patients with IPF.

Data sources Multiple cause of death data extracted from Office for National Statistics mortality database. Statistical methods Age-specific and sex-specific death rates and direct age-standardised ...

Extra virgin olive oil is linked to a lower risk of heart disease and strokes, according to several recent studies.

The study found that people with higher cardiorespiratory fitness not only perform better on cognitive tests but also face a ...

Efforts to reduce high maternal mortality rates involve panels of experts that investigate and learn from each mother’s death ...

dementia, circulatory disease, respiratory disease, digestive system disease, and other. Results Mean follow-up was 3.7 years (range 0–9 years). Overall 1-year postoperative mortality was 27.3% ...

people with dementia are also more likely to experience sepsis and surgical site bleeding than people without dementia and all of these conditions are also linked to the higher death rates. We realise ...

Thanks to menopause awareness campaigns by celebrities including Davina McCall and Mariella Frostrup, more women than ever ...

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