Hospital mortality rates for pneumonia are much higher under a broader definition of the illness, according to a study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Researchers, led by Michael B.

To examine the association between the different definitions of metabolic syndrome (MetS) and the prediction of incident cardiovascular disease (CVD) and mortality events and to determine whether the ...

In a prospectively studied population of more than 900,000 U.S. adults (404,576 men and 495,477 women) who were free of cancer at enrollment in 1982, there were 57,145 deaths from cancer during 16 ...

The nation recently passed a grim pandemic marker when the COVID-19 “death toll” reached 100,000. But the fact is, there are widely varying estimates of deaths and illness associated with the COVID-19 ...