A new survey finds that nearly 20% of Americans knew someone who died of COVID-19. It also digs into divded reactions to the pandemic.

If eviction moratoriums had been implemented nationwide on March 1, 2020, the United States would've seen 40% fewer COVID-19 deaths, a paper finds.

Nine hikers were found dead in 1959 after a risky expedition in Russia's Ural Mountains. New research offers a plausible explanation.

During the early months of COVID-19, fewer people in cardiac arrest in Michigan went to the hospital and more people died, a new study shows.

COVID-19 is a lot more deadly than the flu, a new study in the United States shows. "We can put that debate to rest," says Anirban Basu.

It may be several weeks before COVID-19 deaths peak in most of the United States, according to a model that relies on US data.

In states with gun licensing laws that require an in-person application and giving fingerprints, there are fewer fatal mass shootings.

Almost 72% of unclassified drug overdoses between 1999-2016 involved prescription opioids, heroin, or fentanyl. That's more than 99,000 additional deaths.

"The basic records being kept are annual reports on the number of deaths from drug overdose. But that's only part of the picture."

New research links a genetic anomaly and some forms of SIDS, or sudden infant death syndrome, which claims the lives of more than 3,000 infants a year.