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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Thirteen of the 31 deaths linked to Hurricane Charley in Florida last month were people over age 60, many of them apparently overwhelmed
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A total of seven people died in two separate weekend shootings at Connecticut homes, including an 81-year-old gunman, police said Sunday. Investigators believed both incidents were murder-suicides.
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Police say they are treating the deaths of two men whose bodies were found in a maisonette as unexplained.
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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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MORBID patterns are emerging as Japanese police investigate the deaths of nine young people in what look like the latest cases of &quot;net suicide&quot;, the wired way for lonely people at least to die in company.
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The toll of Americans presumed dead in the South Asian tsunami has more than doubled as the State Department announced Wednesday that 20 more people were added to the list of those known previously to have perished.
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Seven were hit by trains or cars. Ten were killed illegally, often shot and left to die. Thirteen were killed by wildlife officials because they had menaced humans or had otherwise become a nuisance. One was killed in self-defense.
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The stories seem strange but riveting. A heart attack victim recalls floating in the air, watching paramedics revive him. A surgical patient remembers hovering, watching the doctors operate. Such widely reported out-of-body experiences have long been the territory of theology, philosophy and scary movies. Now scientists have turned their attention to the topic.
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Baltimore, Philadelphia and other cities in a bloodstained corridor along the East Coast are seeing a surge in killings, and one of the most provocative explanations offered by criminal-justice experts is this: not enough new immigrants.
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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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Foreign Ministry now fears several Finnish deaths in Asian earthquake zone It is highly likely there will be several Finnish fatalities from the effects of the tidal waves following the massive earthquake in ...
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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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For one hot, bloody weekend in July, it was like old times in the nation's former murder capital. Eleven people died violent deaths over a 48-hour period. One was a hospital worker gunned down by muggers near Chinatown. Another was shot and killed in a drug-related dispute.
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If the high death toll in May continues beyond the summer, it could raise questions about US strategy.
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Under scrutiny the case in which a male patient died earlier this year, showing symptoms consistent with a rare and invariably fatal brain disease.
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A 2-year-old boy in Idaho and an  elderly woman in Maryland who both died from suspected E. coli  infections raised to three the number of deaths related to a  nationwide health scare around fresh spinach, state health  officials said on Friday.