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Lack of physical activity and sitting more than eight hours a day was associated with a higher risk for death.

Beginning January 1, patients in California no longer have to wait 15 days between required requests for death-inducing drugs.

“Health is about more than the individual. It’s something that people do together.”

Those on the margins of society or with life-limiting illnesses and other social determinants offer a wisdom that often goes unrecognized.

Screening Black women for breast cancer starting at age 40 would decrease deaths by 57%.

Death rates for most cancers continue to decline.

But individuals who sought surgery soon after diagnosis had better outcomes.

A new study has found that far more ancient Britons developed cancer than previously believed.

The update ensures that more minorities and women with lighter smoking histories now qualify for screening.

Coronavirus killed more Americans in the past year than any cause of death in 2019, other than heart disease and cancer.

The decrease is largely due to improved lung cancer treatment, but the impact of COVID-19 is not yet known.

“Saved By the Bell” actor Dustin Diamond died Monday at age 44 from small cell lung cancer.

Estimates show that more than 300,000 people died of COVID-19 in 2020.

COVID-19 has overwhelmed morgues, funeral homes and religious leaders, required ingenuity and even changed the rituals of honoring the dead.

At least 2,900 health workers have died since the pandemic began. Many were minorities with the highest levels of patient contact.

Longer delays were associated with worsening risk of death.