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For the first time in 45 years, homicide has fallen off the list of the nation's top 15 causes of death, government health officials said Wednesday.

Cancer is the world's top "economic killer" as well as its likely leading cause of death, the American Cancer Society contends in a new report it will present at a global cancer conference in China this week.

The Los Angeles coroner's office is waiting to run tests on the King of Pop's brain to help determine the cause of death.

Michael Jackson will be buried without his brain today after doctors retained it following an autopsy to help determine the cause of death.

The King of Pop will be saluted in grand fashion at the Staples Centre memorial ceremony, and repo

The medical examiner who oversaw a private autopsy on David Carradine said Wednesday that the "Kung Fu" star died from asphyxiation and the way the actor's body was bound allowed him to rule out suicide.

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A medical examiner in Florida says Mays, a voluble TV pitchman, showed no evidence of head trauma.

Brian Oxman blames the singer's "handlers" for "enabling" him; "I warned that his day may come"