Psychology & Psychiatry

Suicide rates up for most race, ethnic groups in 2018 to 2021

From 2018 to 2021, age-adjusted suicide rates increased among most race/ethnic groups, according to research published in the Feb. 10 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbidity and Mortality Weekly ...

Medications

Study finds 'startling' inequities in end-of-life opioid treatment

Older Black and Hispanic patients with advanced cancer are less likely than white patients to receive opioid medications for pain relief in the last weeks of life, according to a study led by investigators at Harvard-affiliated ...

Obstetrics & gynaecology

2020 to 2021 saw no change in overall fetal mortality rates

From 2020 to 2021, there was no change in overall, early, or late fetal mortality rates, according to a January Vital Statistics Rapid Release report, a publication from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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