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The United States is experiencing its highest overall death rates in more than a century, fueled in part by drug overdose mortality. The origins of the current epidemic are due, at least in part, to a 1986 World Health Organization pronouncement that pain treatment is a universal right.

Obesity disproportionately affects people in underrepresented racial and ethnic groups, putting them at a higher risk for heart disease.

There has been a recent three-fold increase in obesity-related deaths from heart disease in the U.S. between 1999 and 2020, according to new research published today in the Journal of the American Heart Association, an open access, peer-reviewed journal of the American Heart Association.

Rates tripled between 1999 and 2020, most dramatically among Blacks and American Indians/Alaskan natives.

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Harvard is poised to receive more than half a million dollars in opioid settlement funds in the next decade or so. And although town officials...

In a new study, American Cancer Society researchers discovered deaths with cancer as the underlying or primary cause decreased in the United States during the first year of the pandemic in 2020 compared to 2019, continuing the decreasing trend from prior years.

Over the past 20 years, the death rate from drug poisonings in the U.S. has tripled and suicide and alcoholic liver disease death rates have increased b...

Drug overdose fatalities surged during the COVID-19 pandemic in New York State, with opioid-related overdose deaths increasing by 68% to nearly 5,000 individuals from 2019 to 2021.

More than 16,000 cancer deaths from March to December 2020 were linked to complications due to COVID-19 in the US, according to a study.