Located just outside the city proper, Bonaventure Cemetery deserves its reputation as one of the most beautiful final resting ...

We used to think of measles outbreaks in the United States as isolated events: short-lived and confined to close-knit ...

Despite these staggering numbers, the full extent of this epidemic may not be fully understood because nurses and other health care workers chronically underreport violent encounters. The American ...

Contrary to common assumptions, research by News Corp’s Growth Distillery with Medibank found it is Millennials and Gen Zers – not Baby Boomers – who are feeling the loneliest. One in four ...

Rates of myopia are increasing globally, with the World Health Organization estimating that half of the world’s population could have myopia by 2050 in what is already being called an epidemic.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Motorists on South Africa’s intrinsic web of roads and freeways live with the nagging fear of being attacked, particularly being intercepted by rowdy hijackers, marauding on the roads.

The UK is in the midst of a “lone wolf epidemic”, with the majority of terrorist attacks being conducted by individuals, according to new research. The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP ...

“Consider the systems that have brought us here today in what we all acknowledge is an epidemic of violence in the missing (and) murdered and Indigenous persons epidemic,” Broadman said.

How a marked rise in the treatment of certain conditions – physical and mental – is harming, not protecting, public health. By Hannah Barnes In 2023, a remarkable apology was issued. In an interview ...

Bird flu has long been a top contender for starting the next pandemic. Between 2003 and 2023, there were 882 cases reported ...

Last Monday TV screens lit up with bright red 'BREAKING NEWS' alerts, as word came in that someone had driven a car into crowds in the western German city of Mannheim. He killed two people and ...