The No. 1 cause of death in the United States hasn't changed—but it's taking even more lives per year than ever before, and ...

In 2022, chronic lower respiratory disease was the sixth highest cause of death in the U.S., according to results published ...

Here’s how it works. There's no doubt that cancer is deadly: In the United States, the disease is the second-most-common cause of death, after heart disease, according to the Centers for Disease ...

Pneumonia is a common cause of death among elderly people and young children whose immune systems are weakened or impaired in some way. A common bacterium, Streptococcus pneumoniae, lives in the ...