Drug-related deaths are the single largest cause of 2023 excess mortality, compared with the mortality that would have been expected had earlier trends continued. Other important contributing ...

The new findings show the cancer mortality rate declined by 34% from 1991 to 2022 in the United States, averting approximately 4.5 million deaths. However, this steady progress is jeopardized by ...

Across the world, the death rate increases during the winter, a phenomenon called "excess winter mortality." It’s a curious fact that winter, sleigh bells and Valentine’s Day notwithstanding ...

There is some hyperpigmentation throughout the entire plaque. Although dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) are most common on the trunk, they have also been reported in virtually all locations ...

Turning 80, as I do this month, tends to focus the mind on one's mortality. I plan to live another 20 years, as did Jimmy Carter, but I could just as easily be dead in 20 months. I can no longer ...

Around the beginning of each year, I customarily write a column about how we’ve just had the “best year ever” in the long history of humanity. This annual eruption of exuberance outrages ...

This model allows nationwide mortality figures to currently be provided up until 31 December 2024. First comparable results for all Länder will be available about four weeks later. What is the impact ...

Introduction National Health Service hospitals and government agencies are increasingly using mortality rates to monitor the quality of inpatient care. Mortality and Morbidity (M&M) meetings, ...

Both dermatofibromas and skin cancer lesions can feel firm and fixed. Some skin cancers, like dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP), can initially resemble a dermatofibroma, and may even dimple when ...

Estimated numbers of new cancer cases and deaths in 2023 by cancer site and US state Current cancer incidence, mortality, and survival statistics Information on cancer symptoms, risk factors, early ...