A recent study found that negative autopsy/sudden unexplained death (SUD) constituted the most common observation in sudden ...

Sudden death syndrome (SDS) is a broad term that can describe any sudden, unexpected death from natural causes. It is not a formal condition or diagnosis and does not necessarily indicate a specific ...

After Cheyenne mom Kristy Van Der Hoeven’s sudden death, friends and families created a nonprofit to carry on her tradition ...

The concept of sudden death—an unexpected fatality that occurs within hours of symptom onset—represents one of medicine’s most alarming phenomena. While these events seem to strike without warning, ...

Shobi Sivathamboo receives funding from the National Institutes of Health. She is affiliated with The International League Against Epilepsy SUDEP Task Force. When 20-year-old Disney Channel star ...

The risk of sudden cardiac death among college athletes in the United States has steadily declined over the past two decades, data presented earlier this week at the American Heart Association (AHA) ...

Mortality statistics list cardiovascular disease as the most frequent cause of death worldwide, and as often as not, cardiac death occurs suddenly. 1 On any given day, up to 1000 persons in the United ...

Woolly mammoths survived on Wrangel Island for 6,000 years after their mainland cousins had perished. A new genomic study has revealed that this final population likely died from a sudden, mysterious ...