Mortality

Kids are faced with death in many other contexts, from grandparents dying naturally to the suicide of peers—and I'm okay with keeping the blinders off.

We used to be intimately familiar with death; today we are barely on speaking terms. But as our response to the COVID-10 pandemic shows, it's not because we've grown any more resilient.

Men reporting erectile dysfunction faced a hazard ratio of 1.4 even when testosterone levels were healthy, the study authors state.

"Climate change does not only affect far away places but also the United States, whose administration has announced withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement," a scientist told "Newsweek."

With the aging of baby boomers, the number of Americans aged 65 and older with Alzheimer's is expected to rise dramatically, to over 13.8 million, by 2050, with some estimates reaching as high as 16 million.

Some reasons to be happy.

"We all know we are going to go at some time or other but we don't want to be reminded," one resident said.

Brazil, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Venezuela and the U.S. together accounted for half of the 251,000 gun deaths in 2016.

"The sheer variety of nutrients achieved with a plant based, carb-rich diet cannot be replicated on a restricted carb one."

This is paradise according to Islam, Judaism, Christianity...and Eric Clapton.

Sleeping in over the weekend could counteract the negative effects of short sleeps during the week, according to a new study.

Serious-injury patients with this blood type died at nearly three times the rate of patients with others.

In the United States, maternal death rates vary according to place and social status and are getting worse, not better.

Drinking too much might take 30 minutes off your life.

Mississippi, the state with the highest infant mortality rate and worst overall ranking in the nation for children and infant care, according to a recent report, is expected to adopt the country's strictest abortion laws on Monday. 

"Our consciousness, it seems, does not become annihilated just because we've crossed the threshold of death; it appears to keep functioning and not dissipate."

The discovery "goes against everything we know in terms of mammalian biology."

The algorithm could predict mortality from three months to one year.

Trump's budget would end America's support for foreign family planning assistance.

South Korea has some of the lowest obesity rates in the world.

Because of his weakened health, Castro said it might be the last time he addressed Communist Party officials.

Study finds that Oxazepan decreased Eurasian perch mortality rate in Swedish lake