A heat wave sweeping across much of the eastern and central United States has killed at least 30 people in the past week, according to local officials, as more dangerously hot conditions are expected ...
A new study provides the first concrete data showing that many of these excess deaths were indeed uncounted COVID-19 deaths. The study compared reported COVID-19 deaths to excess deaths due to ...
Katelyn John is majoring in neuroscience and is a 2022-23 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Any form of physician-assisted suicide, now known as ...