The latest national data on child deaths in England show that while overall deaths have slightly decreased, stark inequalities remain by region, ethnicity and deprivation level. The National Child ...

Cancer death rates in the UK have hit a record low, but the picture is more complicated than the headline figure suggests.

A report by the Museum of Homelessness project-Dying Homeless Project 2024 into the deaths of homeless people in the UK provides evidence that homelessness and linked deaths will continue under this ...

Cancer death rates in the UK have fallen by 22% over the past 50 years. However, diagnoses have risen by almost half, according to a new analysis by Cancer Research UK (CRUK). The Cancer in the UK ...

The COVID-19 pandemic’s early death toll was much higher than the official U.S. count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths. What to know about the ...

The latest figures come as a proposed law for England and Wales to legalise assisted dying returns for debate in the House of ...

The UK faces a “turning point” this year, with the number of deaths to outnumber births by ever-greater margins for the next 50 years, a think tank has predicted. The impact, the Resolution Foundation ...

Britain will roll out meningitis vaccines to students at a university in southeast England after an "unprecedented" outbreak ...

Lucinda Hiam receives funding from a Clarendon Scholarship for her studies at the University of Oxford. Martin McKee holds research grants from the European Commission Horizons Europe Programme, ...