"What I have seen recently, I have never seen before. I have never seen so much intentional injury."

"During the pandemic, basically everything is pointed in the wrong direction," says one federal health official, who calls the convergence of COVID-19 and America's addiction crisis "a nightmare."

Tuberculosis kills 1.5 million people each year. Lockdowns and supply-chain disruptions threaten progress against the disease as well as H.I.V. and malaria.

Modelling research published today in the Canadian Medical Association Journal says the estimated time to clear surgeries postponed due to the pandemic is 84 weeks, with a target of 717 surgeries per...

Prolonged social isolation and a lack of face-to-face services are being blamed for a concerning increase in the number of young people presenting to emergency departments with self-inflicted...

Advocates and pediatricians who specialize in child abuse say they are seeing an increase in the number of abused children being hospitalized.

Background: The pandemic caused by COVID-19 has forced governments to implement strict social mitigation strategies to reduce the morbidity and mortality from acute infections. These strategies...

The toll is falling heaviest on young adults, caregivers, essential workers and minorities.

Thirty million Americans are now unemployed, in part thanks to government "lockdowns." Meanwhile, unemployment in many cases doubles the unemployed person's risk of death through disease, suicide, or

A new study looks at the number of cardiac arrest deaths occurring at home in the time of coronavirus, comparing the stay-at-home period to prior months

Last month, days after his second child was born, Richard heard that his brain tumour, removed five years ago, had started to grow again. “Holding my baby, I was optimistic that I would see his 18th

Researchers are finding growing evidence that the Covid-19 pandemic’s deadly reach is stretching far beyond people who died from coronavirus infections, reflecting the ways the pandemic amplified...

A decline in mammograms and other screening procedures after the coronavirus pandemic struck is leading to missed and delayed cancer diagnoses.

THE num­ber of peo­ple dy­ing at home from ill­nesses other than Covid-19 has rock­eted since lock­down. Fig­ures from the Of­fice for Na­tional Sta­tis­tics for March to Septem­ber re­veal that...

COVID-19 measures during provincial lockdown led to big drops in cancer screening, and the results are showing. “This is a step backwards.”

“I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve heard parents say that they feel like their children have wilted,” one pediatrician said. “We definitely have seen an uptick in

The number of people waiting more than a year to start non-coronavirus hospital treatment in September was the highest of any month since 2008, new data reveals.

Japan had turned the tide on suicides until the pandemic reality sunk in, now it could prove a worrying harbinger of a mental health crisis festering elsewhere.

Coronavirus has a grim new toll after Victims Commissioner Dame Vera Baird told MPs 16 women may have been killed in the last three weeks. On average, two women a week die at the hands of their...

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The United States recorded over 81,000 drug overdose deaths in a 12-month stretch, the worst year-long total reported in American history.

Confined mostly to tiny cabins, crew members found themselves forced to stay aboard—sometimes without pay—and struggling to cope with a monthslong lockdown.

Nearly 700 sons, daughters, mothers, fathers, friends and loved ones were lost to an epidemic last year that the city has long struggled to control.

People with dementia ‘just switching off’ amid reduced medical care and family visits

Firmly linking teen suicides to school closings is difficult, but rising mental health emergencies and suicide rates point to the toll the pandemic lockdown is taking.

CDC is closely monitoring an outbreak caused by a novel (new) coronavirus in Wuhan City, China.

A pandemic inside of another pandemic is what many healthcare experts are calling the recent uptick in opioid-related deaths during the coronavirus emergency. “They're not calling 911 necessarily if...

A New York woman died during childbirth from a treatable condition that went undiagnosed because of coronavirus restrictions imposed by area hospitals, according to her family.

The figures for England and Wales cover the first nine months of 2020.

A 12-year-old Texas boy who felt “sad and lonely” amid the coronavirus lockdown measures hanged himself, his father reveals in a report about the tragedy. Hayden Hunstable, of Aledo, took his

SAN FRANCISCO — The number of suicidal children in San Francisco has hit a record high and health experts say it is clear that keeping public schools closed “is catalyzing a mental health crisis