A total of 1,285 people died as a result of infectious diseases on the Chinese mainland in April, official data showed on Wednesday.
China faces "huge challenges" from cancer amid a marked increase in new cases and deaths of the disease in recent years, a new report has found.
A total of 106 dengue fever related deaths were reported by Taiwan's center for disease control Wednesday morning, with the number of infectious cases reaching 23,821 since the start of May.
Cancer was the cause of death for 1.281 million persons in the EU in 2011, responsible for 26.3 percent of all deaths, according to data released Tuesday by Eurostat, the statistical office of the EU.
About 1.65 million heart- related deaths per year can be attributed to sodium consumption above the World Health Organization's recommendation of 2.0g per day, a new study said Wednesday.
Excessive drinking accounted for one in 10 deaths among working-age adults aged 20 to 64 years in the United States and cost the country about 224 billion U.S. dollars per year, a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said Thursday.
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