There are both clinical and economic implications, as payers have been discouraging ablation in this population, one expert ...

More rigorous randomized data are needed, which could be challenging in light of the drugs’ indication based on BMI.

In patients with persistent atrial fibrillation, those receiving pulsed field ablation as first-line therapy had less risk ...

Death rates in immigration detention are nearing record highs, raising concerns among physicians regarding the health service standards at federal facilities, according to a new JAMA research study.

Physicians said Thursday that new research on deaths in ICE custody showed that “systemic weakness” in medical care at the agency has become more serious in the past two decades. Meanwhile, the number ...

A new study analyzing Mount Everest expeditions spanning more than a century has found that death rates among climbers have ...

The number of gun deaths in the U.S. fell for the third consecutive year in 2024 but remained among the highest annual totals on record.

It is not currently understood whether the COVID-19 pandemic led to a lengthy period of elevated mortality rates or whether rates have returned to prepandemic trends. To examine this, I calculated age ...

In Dallas County, residents are dying at a lower rate than during the peak of the pandemic, but the mortality rate still hasn’t dropped back to prepandemic levels. Those findings come according to the ...

The states with the greatest increases in 988 crisis hotline use since 2022 experienced the greatest decrease in suicide ...