Coroners across Anderson, Greenville, and Spartanburg counties say 2025 revealed troubling and often preventable trends in ...

Cancer, the emperor of all maladies, is tragic under most any circumstances, but it’s even worse when the condition could have been prevented. Scientists estimate that 40 percent of all cancers are ...

Seven pedestrian deaths have occurred across the Richmond region since Christmas Eve, with five fatalities in Richmond alone, ...

Live Science's health channel editor makes predictions about the medical breakthroughs and public health shifts to come in ...

As Spartanburg County continues to grapple with an ongoing measles outbreak, state officials are highlighting a trend of ...

Falls are the most common cause of injury and hospital admission for trauma among older Americans. Holly Waller, senior director of Trauma, Burn and Inpatient Wound Services at UAB Hospital, says ...

Hospitalizations for ambulatory care–sensitive conditions signal inadequate access to preventive and primary care, and they cost the US health care system over $30 billion in avoidable hospital costs ...

Oct. 27, 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released its 2015 National Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries. This report showed a slight increase in the fatality rate over 2014 for the ...

Vaccines are considered one of the greatest public health achievements of the 20th century. They've saved millions of lives. But there are still outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases all over the ...

Preventable emergency room visits cost the health care system billions of dollars per year. They can represent a heavier burden for providers, as well as unnecessary suffering by patients whose ...

Objective: To ascertain preventable and non-preventable risk factors for adverse drug events (ADEs) in elderly inpatients at hospital admission. Patients and Methods: This was a prospective study of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A year and a half before the coronavirus first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Devi Sridhar, a professor ...