Around 50% of everyone in Europe died during the Black Death. It's very hard to make sense of that. What did it look and feel like to live through this calamity? Today Maddy Pelling and Anthony ...

The coroner initially said Indianapolis resident George Tompkins "could not have hanged himself." A new plaque tells how his death was ruled a suicide.

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How the Black Death entered Europe.

Evidence from 13th-century chroniclers and physicians indicates plague may have been involved in epidemics a century before the Black Death, a new study shows. Yersinia pestis, the bacterium that ...

Cancer deaths among Black men and women in the United States have declined during the past decade in the United States, a new American Cancer Society report says. The cancer death rate decreased ...