The woman used tap water from an RV to rinse her sinuses, leading to a rare and often fatal brain infection caused by ...

“If water containing the ameba goes up the nose and to the brain, it can cause an infection called primary amebic ...

A Texas woman has died after contracting a rare infection from a brain-eating amoeba while using tap water to clear out her sinuses at an RV campground, according to a recent report.

Several studies have flagged problems with South Africa's death registration processes. A critical first step to addressing it is to replace our paper-based process with an electronic one, argue Dr ...

Mary Hull's husband died in the emergency room but no one signed the death certificate. That changed after she got KENS 5 involved.

The White House released an expansive report that blames a crisis of chronic disease in children on ultraprocessed foods, chemical exposures, lack of physical activity, stress and excessive use of ...

according to a new UNICEF report. It ranks Canada closer to the bottom than the top of the list when it comes to adolescent suicide rates, child mortality and competence in social skills.

When a death or stillbirth was reported by the family, the CHWs completed a general mortality report. If the death was a neonatal death or stillbirth, the CHWs recorded the information in a separate ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Cancer mortality rates in the United States declined from 2001 to 2022, with a 1.5% annual decrease from 2018 to 2022. Cancer incidence rates decreased from 2001 ...

Earlier this year the CDC released its latest maternal mortality report showing that between 2022 and 2023 ... because we’re asserting our rights and that’s looked at as some form of neglect.” Doula ...