India leads the world in pollution-linked deaths followed by China and Nigeria, according to a report published Wednesday that estimated the global impact of contaminants in the air, water and workplace.
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Candidates vying to be Los Angeles County’s top prosecutor promised Friday to cease death penalty convictions, bolster police accountability and rollback policies embraced by incumbent District Attorney Jackie Lacey, who skipped the campaign debate.
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The Seattle Children’s Hospital hid a mold problem for more than a decade, which led to the deaths of six children and sickened several others, a putative class action complaint claims.
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The nation’s largest food assistance program does more than help low-income families – it also supports health by preventing premature death among adults, according to a study released Monday.
Read moreThe candle’s flame sputters and then dies in a ribbon of white smoke, the smell of burnt wax mingling with the scents of pan dulce and tequila. Faces of people, long gone now but never forgotten, peer out from behind glasses of milk, cans of Coke and marigolds. A pack of Marlboro Reds, a can of Bud Light, a package of M&Ms and plates of salt and apples complete la ofrenda, the offering, for the traveling souls of our loved ones.
Read moreA former Rice University football player stood before a magistrate in Houston federal court Friday to face charges he sold opioids to a teammate who died in his sleep after taking the pills.
Read moreEgypt’s former president, Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader who rose to office in the country’s first free elections in 2012 and was ousted a year later by the military, collapsed in court during a trial and died Monday, state TV and his family said.
Read moreWithin 30 days of death, a human body could be the soil nourishing a growing tree under a bill signed into Washington law Tuesday morning by Governor Jay Inslee. The process uses fewer resources than traditional burial and releases far less carbon dioxide than cremation.
Read moreNew research into the brains of dead pigs suggests scientists can restore brain circulation and certain cellular function hours after death.
Read moreAir pollution caused an estimated 8.8 million deaths across the globe in 2015, inching ahead of deaths from smoking, according to a new study Tuesday.
Read moreMagnified by a 2016 case in which doctors removed an infant from life support over the parents’ objections, a fight over California’s longstanding standard on brain death sharpened Monday at the Ninth Circuit.
Read moreIn a complaint for emotional distress and grave desecration, a man claims the Greenwood Cemetery Association of Wayne, Nebraska, and Schumacher-Hasemann Funeral Homes left his mother in an uncovered grave for five days, telling him he “should have picked a different day to bury his mother because there was a Nebraska Husker football game.”
Read morePrescription opioid use has not declined over the last decade despite increased efforts to educate patients and doctors in order to prevent abuse, according to a study published Wednesday.
Read moreMore young people in America are drinking themselves to death, according to a new study from the British Medical Journal.
Read moreRejecting a cemetery owner’s challenge to state consumer-protection laws, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that it is unlawful to own both a funeral home and a cemetery.
Read moreA European Court of Justice magistrate on Tuesday urged his colleagues to overturn a German law that bars heirs from demanding their loved one’s unused vacation time in cash.
Read moreThe Wisconsin Supreme Court heard oral arguments Thursday in a case over whether it should be unlawful to own both a funeral home and a cemetery.
Read moreA Romanian court has ruled that a man who died last year should get his driver’s license back after it overturned a ban.
Read moreVaccines could save as many as 36 million lives and avert roughly 24 million cases of medical impoverishment in 41 low- and middle-income nations between by 2030, a new study finds.
Read moreScientists on Tuesday linked brief exposure to low levels of fine-particulate air pollution and ozone to an elevated risk of premature death among senior citizens in the United States.
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