Death

The News The gap in life expectancy between men and women in the United States grew to its widest in…

The debate over aid in dying still rages in the language that medicine and the media use to describe the…

His books, laced with humor and often banned in his country, chronicle centuries of strife in the Middle East, earning…

Because Ryan Carson was a liberal activist, social media trolls blamed his own politics for his death.

For one critic, every encounter with this Shakespeare play deepens her understanding of its insights into grief, family and gender.

A scathing report about the troubled Rikers Island jail complex and another death there come as New York City faces…

It’s lowering American life expectancy and influencing the nation’s politics.

Death is excessive in America, and the more you look the more distressing the picture seems. You’ve probably heard about…

Stories of narcotics-related death and debasement flooded the media. Politicians stoked panic about marijuana. Parents feared that teenagers would tip…

Researchers at Stanford devised a strange new molecule that could lead to drugs that arm genes and make cancers work…