Research from Canada's own Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) featured in this week's edition of the Lancet shows that worldwide, 1 in 25 deaths are directly attributable to alcohol consumption. This rise since 2000 is mainly due to increases in the number of women drinking.

While California looked into what could possibly be the first confirmed swine flu deaths in the U.S., the CDC warned that the U.S. should expect to see some swine flu deaths as the contagion spreads.

Alcohol-related deaths in England and Wales are twice as high among people born in Scotland or Ireland compared with the rest of the population, a study has shown.

The SUV which was the subject of an Amber Alert for Julian King, the 7-year-old nephew of Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Hudson has been found, with the body of a child inside. The body has not yet been identified.

As I wrote earlier, the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) met on Thursday to discuss an emergency order which would ban the use of cell phones by train operators.

Globally, war has killed three times more people than previously estimated, and there is no evidence to support claims of a recent decline in war deaths, concludes a study published on BMJ.com.

HealthGrades (NASDAQ: HGRD), a provider of objective ratings of hospitals, nursing homes and home health agencies in the United States, conducted a new research to estimate the number of potentially preventable deaths between 2004 and 2006.

Doctors could benefit from support to help them cope with the trauma of patient death, says a psychologist speaking at the Death, dying & disposal conference organised by the University of Bath today.

Luciano Pavarotti, whose vibrant high C's and ebullient showmanship made him one of the world's most beloved tenors, has died. He was 71.

About 40 percent of deaths worldwide are caused by water, air and soil pollution, concludes a Cornell researcher. Such environmental degradation, coupled with the growth in world population, are major causes behind the rapid increase in human diseases, which the World Health Organization has recently reported. Both factors contribute to the malnourishment and disease susceptibility of 3.7 billion people, he says.

UK estimates of 'drug-related deaths' (DRDs) include mortalities of drug abusers and non-drug abusers. So these figures may not be the best way of monitoring the performance of Drug and Alcohol Action Teams, a study published in the online open access journal Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention and Policy suggests.

Dogs can sometimes predict an epileptic owner's seizure or sniff at an owner's mole, signaling a possible cancer. Now, it appears a cat can predict the deaths of patients in a nursing home.