Sir Chris Wormald will leave his role as the senior official at the Department of Health and Social Care to become the new ...

The three nasty viruses in circulation around NI - a simultaneous spread of Covid-19, influenza (flu), and respiratory ...

The provisional unexplained infant mortality rate was 0.28 deaths per 1,000 live births, which is consistent with the stabilised trend over the last 10 years. Sudden infant deaths accounted for 53% of ...

An unprepared NHS risks being overwhelmed this winter by a surge in flu while vaccine uptake has dropped to a post-Covid low, ...

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A graying population and COVID-19 helped lead to a record number of deaths in Japan in 2022, the largest increase since the end of World War II. Health ministry officials released population ...

The death toll from the new ... The national health institute said the average age of those who have died was 81, with the ...

Reuters is collecting daily COVID-19 infections and deaths data for 240 countries and territories around the world, updated regularly throughout each day. Every country reports those figures a ...

In its annual National Influenza Vaccination Week messaging the CDC said there's still time to benefit from getting a flu ...

The B.C. government has announced that a memorial service will be held on Dec. 15 for former premier John Horgan.In a ...

Between 1945, when the second world war ended, and the start of the 2010s, average life expectancy and mortality rates in ...

The death toll from the new coronavirus in Italy has risen to 197 ... The national health institute said the average age of those who have died was 81, with the majority suffering from underlying ...