The legislative package for 2020 allots $25 million for gun-violence research, which has been on hold for more than two decades.

The researchers intend for the tool to eventually help doctors make treatment decisions.

In Niger, fewer kids die when health workers administer azithromycin routinely, perhaps because of a shift in the composition of gut microbes.

About 70 gray whales have been found dead this year on the west coast of the US.

Those with two copies of the Δ32 allele in the CCR5 gene are 21 percent more likely to die by age 76, although it’s not clear why.

Biologists recover the bodies of puffins from a mass mortality event.

A comparison of thousands of former athletes in the two sports finds that NFL players were more likely than MLB players to die from cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases, in particular.

Black women and Native American women die roughly three times more often than white women, and 60 percent of all maternal deaths may be preventable.

A demographer’s model suggests the “mortality plateau” in the extreme elderly could be explained by clerical errors. Not everyone agrees.

Scientists argue that current medical advances cannot crack Homo sapiens’s natural age limit.

A large prospective study links the consumption of spicy foods to reduced mortality risk.

Conversion of white fat to brown is associated with muscle atrophy and weight loss in cancer patients.

Study finds that a handful of biological indicators can predict a healthy person’s risk of dying within five years.

Heavy coffee drinkers under 55 are more likely to die sooner, a study shows.

Being socially isolated could increase death risk in the elderly even if they don’t feel lonely.