Emergency departments across the country are experiencing a surge in children with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and bronchiolitis, a complication of RSV. Luckily, many of these young patients can avoid hospitalization ...
Nov 8, 2022
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It's no secret that emergency health care in Canada is in crisis.
Oct 24, 2022
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Violence in the nation's emergency departments is increasing. More than 8 in 10 emergency physicians believe the rate of violence experienced in emergency departments has increased with 45% saying it has greatly increased ...
Sep 22, 2022
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Recognizing the signs that someone is considering suicide could help save a life.
Sep 12, 2022
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Headache is one of the world's most common health issues. Some 40 million Americans suffer from headaches, but that suffering is often misunderstood.
Sep 12, 2022
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Depression in pregnant and postpartum people is a serious problem. Rather than using a screening tool with a cut-off score to detect depression in every pregnant and postpartum patient, clinicians should ask patients about ...
Jul 25, 2022
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At the age of 22, when Susan Conover wanted to get a strange-looking mole checked out, she was told it would take three months to see a dermatologist. When the mole was finally removed and biopsied, doctors determined it ...
Jul 6, 2022
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Emergency departments (EDs) are an important point of care for people with opioid use disorder. But EDs in the United States have been slow to meet patient needs for opioid use treatments like buprenorphine, past research ...
Jun 28, 2022
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The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the use of COVID-19 vaccines for children between the ages of six months and five years, paving the way for yet another wave of inoculations that Northeastern experts ...
Jun 20, 2022
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The epidemic of substance use disorder continues to ravage the United States—as nearly 108,000 Americans died due to overdose in 2021, according provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. More ...
Jun 7, 2022
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