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Death by painkiller overdose isn't just the plight of celebrities; it's a widespread epidemic, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report shows that 40 people die per day from overdosing on prescription narcotics like hydrocodone...

Poorer countries and those that spend proportionately less money on health care have more stroke and stroke deaths than wealthier nations and those that allocate more to health care, according to new research in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. Poorer countries also had a...

An international effort to replace smoky, inefficient household stoves that people commonly use in lower and middle income countries with clean, affordable, fuel efficient stoves could save nearly 2 million lives each year, according to experts from the National Institutes of Health. In a...

The number of people falling ill each year with tuberculosis (TB) is falling, with 8.8 million global cases last year compared to 9 million in 2005, and the number of deaths to the disease in 2010 fell to the lowest level in a decade. However, lack of funding, especially in fighting...

Small bypass vessels which act as a 'back-up system' for the heart's main arteries play a significant role in reducing the mortality of patients with coronary artery disease, according to new research. Researchers from UCL, University of Bern, Yale University and other international...

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The European Society of Cardiology (ESC) is to deliver an educational programme at the 66th Annual Congress of the Brazilian Society of Cardiology. This meeting is the largest cardiology conference in Latin America and will be held in Porto Alegre, Brazil from 16 to 19 September 2011. The...

After dropping charges against a suspected nurse on Friday, UK's Greater Manchester Police (GMP) revealed they plan to interview 500 more people in connection with suspicious deaths and up to 40 cases of patients at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, Cheshire, being poisoned after saline...

Given that celebrity deaths come in threes, and that Real Housewives of Beverly Hills' Russell Armstrong has tragically committed suicide, will more star suicides follow? ...

Colleges and high schools must follow an active strategy to preventing deaths among student athletes from exertional heat stroke (EHS) and other causes, according to an editorial in a recent issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National...

An alarming new article in Respirology issues a serious warning of massive rises in deaths from asbestos-related lung diseases in Asia. Dr Ken Takahashi, Acting Director of the WHO Collaborating Center for Occupational Health, and his team put together important data on asbestos use in 47 Asian...

Dozens of people died in tornadoes in the US over the last couple of days, and most of those deaths were preventable. The truth is, most of those killed died because of a decision they made, so their death is to some extent their fault. But, for good reason, no one wants to blame the victim, so...

Recently somewhere along the west coast a bunch of sardines were found dead. And what about all the birds? Is it just from the magnetic poles shifting?

Hi, I really like mysteries and recently watched a documentary on the death of Marilyn Monroe on YouTube and I wanted to know if there was any other tragic deaths of a classic Hollywood actress apart from Marilyn Monroe cause shes really the only one i know about :)

Hi, I really like mysteries and recently watched a documentary on the death of Marilyn Monroe on YouTube and I wanted to know if there was any other tragic deaths of a classic Hollywood actress apart from Marilyn Monroe cause shes really the only one i know about :)

We have had two unexplained deaths in our equine family recently. A week before Christmas, we lost my sister's 4 year old filly (the picture of health) to a unexplained illness or injury (trauma or neurological). It was very sudden. She started showing symptoms at noon and we put her down at...

Patients treated by Welsh (UK) hospitals for upper gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding were 41% more likely die if they were admitted on a public holiday and 13% more likely if it was at the weekend, according to research in the January issue of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics. Researchers...

The number of new HIV infections "has dropped by about one-fifth over the past decade but millions of people are still missing out on major progress in prevention and treatment," according to the annual UNAIDS report released Tuesday, Agence France-Presse reports. "In 2009, 2.6 million people...

Over 56 countries report either considerable reductions or stabilization in new HIV infection rates, while AIDS-related deaths have fallen 20% over the last five years, a UNAIDS Report on the global AIDS epidemic reveals. The authors also inform that consequently, the total number of individuals...

Haiti's Health Ministry on Sunday said 917 cholera deaths had been reported in the country as of Friday and more than 14,600 people had been hospitalized, according to an update on the ministry's website, Reuters reports. The disease has been detected in six of the country's 10 provinces...