The country had more than 37 thousand new cases in 24 hours; health system is under pressure

These pathogens already kill 1.6 million people every year, and we have few defenses against them

On Tuesday, Well Being Trust, a national foundation that studies mental health and substance issues, released a new study that found alcohol consumption-related deaths have increased by 13% in Colorado.

The global study, which the WHO calls the first of its kind, found that more than 745,000 people died in 2016 from overwork that resulted in stroke and heart disease.

The latest numbers surpass even the yearly tolls during the height of the opioid epidemic and mark a reversal of progress against addiction in recent years.

The boy, who exhibited symptoms hours after arrival, is the state’s first pediatric coronavirus death

The pandemic brought a record uptick in deaths, interrupted a downward trend in death rates and spurred the highest death rate above normal ever recorded in the country.

In recent weeks, as mass shootings across the United States dominated headlines, many Americans have observed that the country seems to be returning to something like a pre-pandemic state — shootings included.

As the pandemic rages in Brazil, hundreds of babies and young children are dying of Covid.

Nearly a third of the nurses who've died of coronavirus in the US are Filipino, even though Filipino nurses make up just 4% of the nursing population nationwide.

In New Jersey, Covid-19 has disproportionately killed Latino men under 50. Apart from the economic and social fallout, the numbers raise questions about vaccine equity and who's at risk.

And what else you need to know today.

Ambulances filled with breathless patients lined up in Brazil as nations around the world set new records Thursday for COVID-19 deaths and new coronavirus infections. The disease surged even in...

Experts say Covid-19 vaccinations in the United States are going extremely well -- but more people need to be protected and the country may be at the start of another surge.

This report describes COVID-19-associated mortality among American Indian and Alaska Native persons compared with non-Hispanic White persons.

Four major influenza epidemics were recorded between 1830 and 1848. The 1830-1831 epidemic may have originated in China; then and in 1833 influenza advanced westward out of Russia into Europe. In 1836-1837, influenza diffusion was largely north to south, and in 1847-1848 the disease swept through th …