New twin‑study research finds that, after removing deaths from accidents and infections, genes account for about 50% of human ...

Understanding mortality represents one of humanity’s most fundamental psychological challenges, yet developing healthy acceptance of death’s inevitability can profoundly enhance how we experience life ...

Cancer screening reduced targeted cancer mortality without significantly increasing deaths from other causes. Meta-analysis of 17 studies found a 0.2% increase in off-target mortality rates in ...

The comedian Woody Allen once mused: “What does it mean that man is mortal? Obviously not a compliment.” Even young children, typically by around eight years old, realize that people die and ...

Scott D. Landes ([email protected]), Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York. After years of advocacy by the disability community and allied organizations, on September 26, 2023, the National ...

COVID-19 might seem like a distant memory but for life insurance executives unexpectedly high mortality rates remain a stubborn reminder. And it’s starting to look like it might not correct itself ...

Screening for cancer reduced targeted cancer mortality without a significant increase in "off-target" mortality, an analysis of 17 large randomized studies showed. Noncancer ("off-target") mortality ...