More mystery deaths than thought
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The rate of sudden unexplained cardiac death  is around eight times higher than thought, warn experts.
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The deaths of two well-known owners of a Christian bookstore in Raytown have a city in shock and investigators baffled. Without any surveillance video or suspect information, Raytown Police
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BEIJING  Construction deaths  Twenty-nine electrical construction accidents claimed the lives of 72 people in the first 10 months of this year, the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC) reported yesterday.  Fifty-one of them died in 11 major accidents.
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A report raises concerns about a study on cot deaths used as evidence in several high profile murder appeals.
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Â· Death not natural causes, pathologist tells inquest   Â· Nobody charged despite police murder inquiry
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The heat wave that scorched California a year ago may have contributed to hundreds more deaths than the state has officially reported, an Associated Press investigation suggests.
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People with slower reaction times and bad memories are more likely to die from a heart attack, a study suggests.
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There were apparently multiple casualties, but the numbers were uncertain in the initial confusion.
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More than 19,000 people were killed in countries across South and Southeast Asia, with thousands more missing or unreachable.
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Deaths related to medication errors appear to rise sharply during the first few days of each month, suggesting that hectic pharmacies may be at least partly to blame, according to researchers.
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Inquiries get under way into the deaths of two men in separate incidents in Inverclyde and the Borders.
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Two deaths have been attributed to a rare type of pneumonia that is occurring among US troops in Iraq at a higher than normal rate, according to a study in the December 22/29 issue of JAMA.
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New York state health officials are investigating an unusual cluster of deaths in an upstate New York county that have all been caused by the same rare brain disease, they said Wednesday.
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By Duluth News-Tribune, Minn.  Sep. 24--Minnesota fisheries officials have a sturgeon mystery on their hands.   Several lake sturgeon have turned up dead in the St.
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Only one of the 31 Floridians killed by Hurricane Charley last month was a victim of drowning, the US government reports in new findings that run counter to data showing drownings were responsible for more than 80 percent of US hurricane deaths over the
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Death tolls in Sri Lanka and India continue to rise, with an estimated 11,000 dead in the island state, and 6,000 dead in India. Of those deaths, 3,000 are thought to have occurred in India&#39;s Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
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Details have begun to emerge about Britons killed, or missing presumed dead, as a result of the Indian Ocean tsunami. A total of 26 Britons have been confirmed dead, but this figure is set to rise.