The bubonic plague wiped out tens of millions of people in Europe in the 14th century — gaining the grim label the Black Death.In 2024, a handful of cases arise each year in the United States ...

The plague — which in the mid-14th century was also known as the Black Death — devastated swaths of Europe, killing millions in under a decade. One of the puzzles surrounding this ancient ...

The plague sounds like something out of a history book. But the disease—nicknamed the “Black Death” or “Great Pestilence”—that killed more than 25 million people, about a third of ...

The Black Death—the world's second bubonic plague pandemic—decimated the populations of Asia, the Middle East, and Europe in the 14th century. But there was a silver lining.

Black women have higher risk of dying from all types of breast cancer, new study finds 01:46. Black women are about 40% more likely to die of breast cancer than White women, but new research is ...

The cancer death rate decreased 49% among Black men and 33% among Black women between 1991 and 2022, according to ACS’ Cancer Statistics for African American and Black People, 2025. However ...

His death came less than a month after legendary actor Louis Gossett Jr., who was diagnosed with prostate cancer, died at age 87. Black men have a heightened risk for not only being diagnosed with ...

COVID jab scientists are developing a Black Death vaccine over fears the disease could re-emerge and kill millions. Researchers believe their inoculation will be the first approved in the UK for th… ...

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center’s treatment of Black women giving birth there is the focus of an ongoing investigation by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Civil Rights.

In 2019 the overall drug overdose death rate among Black people exceeded that of whites for the first time: 36.8 versus 31.6 per 100,000. ... that when Black patients enter treatment, ...

The Black Death killed as many as 50 million people during the 14th Century (Picture: Getty) ... ‘Antibiotics are the only treatment. There are some licensed vaccines in Russia.