(HealthDay)—Trying to put a dent in the ongoing opioid addiction crisis, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday slapped strict new restrictions on the use of opioid-containing cold and cough products by kids.
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Using a novel statistical model, a research team led by Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health mapped the spread of the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone, providing the most detailed picture to date ...
Nov 10, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Could some patients recovering from a nose job get a problem they didn't bargain for?
Nov 9, 2017
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A research team at the University of Washington has developed a wearable device to detect and reverse an opioid overdose. The device, worn on the stomach like an insulin pump, senses when a person stops breathing and moving, ...
Nov 22, 2021
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(HealthDay)—The obesity epidemic among American teens is being fed by a waning desire to lose weight, a new report suggests.
Jun 25, 2018
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Governments need to implement "draconian" travel curbs to stop a mystery coronavirus in China becoming a global epidemic, a team of experts mapping the outbreak said Monday.
Jan 27, 2020
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A treatment program for opioid addiction launched by the Rhode Island Department of Corrections was associated with a significant drop in post-incarceration drug overdose deaths and contributed to an overall drop in overdose ...
Feb 14, 2018
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(Medical Xpress)—A team of researchers from China, the U.S. and Sierra Leone has performed a postmortem on the Ebola outbreak that occurred during 2014/15 infecting approximately 8,700 people in Sierra Leone and killing ...
Mongolia will maintain strict coronavirus regulations until a vaccine is found, the prime minister said Monday, raising the prospect of the country being locked down for months to come.
May 25, 2020
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Stanford University researchers have developed a mathematical model that could help public health officials and policymakers curb an opioid epidemic that took the lives of an estimated 49,000 Americans last year.
Aug 23, 2018
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