mortality

Health news

How do European countries compare on breast cancer deaths?

Breast cancer death rates are expected to drop across European countries, here’s a look at how different women’s age groups compare.

12/03/2025

Nature

Bereaved orca mother carries a second dead calf

Researchers say Tahlequah has now lost two out of four of her documented calves.

03/01/2025

Green News

Air pollution kills 240,000 Europeans a year: Will new EU rules help?

Air pollution is also hurting ecosystems, resulting in lower crop yields.

10/12/2024

Health news

Nursing shortages linked to higher risk of patient death, study finds

Researchers from the University of Southampton in the UK looked into the impact of nurse understaffing on patient outcomes.

24/09/2024

Green News

2023 summer heatwaves killed 47,000 people in Europe, research finds

Heat-related deaths last year would have been 80 per cent higher without adaptation work, scientists estimate.

12/08/2024

Climate

‘An electric shock’: How France changed after the lethal 2003 heatwave

Intensifying heatwaves pose important questions to society, says public health expert Mathilde Pascal.

04/08/2024

Climate

Spanish scientists create new tool to warn of deaths during heatwaves

Following deaths due to extreme heat in Greece and Italy, this map predicts heatwave mortality for places all over Europe.

16/07/2024

Health news

Most of the surface ozone contributing to deaths in Europe 'imported'

New research tries to quantify the impact of surface ozone on premature mortality in Europe, with researchers calling for local and global action on air pollution.

06/06/2024

Nutrition

Scientists link ultra-processed foods to 32 health problems

A new umbrella review found direct links between ultra-processed foods and bad health outcomes.

29/02/2024

Health news

Every year spent in education improves your life expectancy

A new study has revealed the link between mortality and education, comparing not having any education to smoking or drinking.

27/01/2024

Health news

Heatwaves in 2022 may have caused 70,000 deaths in Europe

Researchers analysed how daily versus weekly data can underestimate excess deaths due to heat-related mortality.

21/11/2023

Health news

Nappy packaging in Europe shows unsafe infant sleeping images

A new study has revealed that a high number of baby nappy packaging shows unsafe infant sleeping practices.

25/10/2023

Health news

Alcohol-related deaths are rising in the US. What about in Europe?

Experts have warned that there is no safe threshold for drinking alcohol in terms of health risks.

16/08/2023

World News

Why did more people die over the summer in EU than expected?

More people died in July and August this summer than during the same time in 2020 and 2021, and COVID-19 might be one of the reasons, but not in the way you think.

15/11/2022

Health news

Have we found the secret to longevity?

Researchers have designed an antibody that can recognise specific proteins on the surface of aged cells.

25/10/2021

Romania

Romania in eye of COVID storm with record infections and deaths

Romania is facing a surge in infections amid alarmingly low vaccination uptake.

19/10/2021

World News

Excess deaths: Country-by-country breakdown of COVID's impact in 2020

New data from Eurostat shows that EU countries reported more than 450,000 excess deaths between March and November 2020.

17/02/2021

World News

'There's a better way of judging countries on their COVID-19 response'

Comparing countries on daily COVID-19 deaths is not the most accurate way of assessing performance, a professor has told Euronews.

27/04/2020

World News

EU baby deaths halved in last 20 years, accordig to new statistics

The number of deaths among babies under a year old have halved on average across all EU member states, according to newly released statistics from Eurostat.

19/07/2019