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For years, Iceland, Switzerland, and Norway have ranked near the top of the United Nations' annual index of countries based on indicators of well-being and quality of life. Countries with more poverty ...

Cancer survival hits 70% as early screening and immunotherapy advance—yet survivorship needs and Indigenous disparities demand urgent action.

New research from the University of Portsmouth reveals that during the Great Plague of 1665, Londoners relied on published death statistics to make critical daily decisions about where to go, whom to ...

New research by the University of Portsmouth reveals that during the Great Plague of 1665, Londoners used published death figures to make daily, life or death decisions, reshaping how governments ...

Members of the Rapid Randomized Controlled Trial Lab collaborate with frontline staff throughout NYU Langone to improve care.

America is still growing. But not by much. According to U.S. census estimates released on Jan. 27, population growth has slowed "significantly," with just 1.8 million more people between July 1, 2024, ...

Massachusetts population growth slowed in 2025 due to a slowdown in the international immigration fueling growth in recent years, new data from the Census Bureau showed. The population of ...

The U.S. government’s dramatic immigration restrictions have slowed population growth to the lowest levels since the Covid pandemic, new federal data show. Immigrants have become a major source of ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 27 (Reuters) - U.S. population growth has slowed to its lowest rate since the COVID-19 pandemic, in line with a historic drop in migration worldwide, federal government data released ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The National Institutes of Health failed to protect brain scans that an international group of fringe researchers used to argue for the intellectual superiority of white people. Credit...Ben Denzer ...