Tag: Death/Dying

An in-home exercise program reduced subsequent falls in high-risk seniors by 36 per cent, according the results of a 12-month ...

EAST LANSING, Mich. - Michigan State University physicians have found that vitamin D, if taken for at least three years, ...

People admitted to NHS hospitals with a cardiac arrest over the weekend do not face a higher risk of dying ...

Some doctors fear litigation and professional ruin if they are seen to have overprescribed opioids to terminally ill patients, according ...

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center A University of Colorado Cancer Center study presented at the American Society for Clinical ...

A new study led by Boston Medical Center's Grayken Center for Addiction shows that opioid-related overdose deaths involving another substance ...

Bottom Line: The popular Netflix series "13 Reasons Why" was controversial for its portrayal of the suicide of a 17-year-old ...

Research has documented the widespread availability of graphic images of self-harm, such as cuttings, on the photo-sharing platform Instagram. After ...

Credit: Photo by Johan Wingborg A study that started in 1985 followed some 50 people who had become anorexic in ...

Despite potential for prolonging survival with treatment, one-third of patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer do not see a medical oncologist, ...

Differences in mortality risk suggest the existence of sport-specific disease mechanisms Professional football players appear to have a somewhat elevated ...

Most of those overdosing haven't received prescription opioids recently, suggesting a need for more opioid use disorder screening and treatment ...

Credit: Intermountain Healthcare Providing early, appropriate antibiotic treatment for patients with sepsis -- a serious complication of infection that can ...

Researchers from Gero, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), and University of ...