The study in Zambia's capital city challenges the common belief that Africa somehow "dodged" the COVID-19 pandemic.

Primates born in the last years of their mother's life have a greater risk of dying young, research finds. There are two possible explanations.

COVID-19 is much deadlier and causes more health problem for patients than the seasonal flu does, according to a deep dive into federal medical data.

Certain pre-existing conditions like heart disease, high blood pressure, and others can increase the chance of patients dying from COVID-19, research finds.

Hurricane Irma killed many more people in nursing homes in Florida than officials counted, report researchers.

The true US death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic may be 36% higher than reported. Racism may be a big factor, the data suggests.

Adults who added an antipsychotic to their depression treatment had a death risk compared to patients who added an antidepressant, a new study finds.

A recent CDC report says only 6% of people who died from COVID-19 in 2019 didn't have any comorbidities. That doesn't mean what you'll read on social media.

The success rate for climbers reaching the summit of Mount Everest has doubled in the past 30 years while the death rate has hovered unchanged at around 1%.

"These deaths may not only come from those who are hospitalized, but also from those who should have been hospitalized but were not."