Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation

Conditions affecting the nervous system — such as strokes, migraines and dementia — have surged past heart disease to become the leading cause of ill health worldwide, a major new analysis said on Friday.

More than 3.4 billion people — 43 percent of the global population — experienced a neurological condition in 2021, far more than had previously been thought, the analysis found.

Greece has one of the highest firearm homicide rates in Europe, according to a survey by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft MSFT, +1.30%, offered up some "bad news" in a CNN interview on Sunday for those feeling optimistic over the imminent U.S. arrival of the first COVID-19 vaccine.

Soaring birth rates in developing nations are fuelling a global baby boom while women in dozens of richer countries aren't producing enough children to maintain population levels there, according to figures released Friday, reports AFP. 

The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle carried out a survey of the world’s disease burden in 2013. These have just been published in the Lancet medical journal. Here is what most people suffer from. In Greece, like most of the world it’s lower back pain, though depression seems to be gaining ground.