Addiction
West Virginia's enduring, intertwined epidemics: Opioids and HIV
Long before COVID-19 entered the picture, West Virginia had been battling two other major public health crises: opioids and HIV.
Feb 22, 2021
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HIV & AIDS
To end HIV epidemic, we must address health disparities
Scientific strides in HIV treatment and prevention have reduced transmissions and HIV-related deaths significantly in the United States in the past two decades. However, despite coordinated national efforts to implement HIV ...
Feb 19, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Health officials say the coronavirus will likely become endemic in the next several years. What does that mean?
Even as cases continue to decline and more Americans receive their vaccines, the coronavirus isn't likely to go away anytime soon, health officials say.
Feb 17, 2021
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Medications
High patient uptake for text message system monitoring opioid use in real-time
After more than 1,000 orthopaedic procedures at a city health system, roughly 61 percent of the opioids prescribed to patients went unused, according to new research. This was discovered within a study at the Perelman School ...
Feb 17, 2021
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Medical research
Heat islands and lack of running water promote dengue fever in Delhi
What if more inclusive urban planning for poor populations was key to fighting dengue fever? This is what researchers from the CNRS, the Institut Pasteur and the Indian Council of Medical Research have demonstrated using ...
Feb 11, 2021
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Death by suicide? Drug overdoses muddy waters for investigators, amplify mental health crisis
Classifying a death as suicide may be easiest for medical examiners and coroners in the western United States, which reports the highest suicide rates officially. Suicide by firearm is the leading method there, and usually ...
Feb 8, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Age groups that sustain resurging COVID-19 epidemics in the United States
As of October 2020, individuals aged 20-49 were the only groups sustaining COVID-19 transmission with reproduction numbers well above 1 in the US, according to the latest publication in Science today by the Imperial College ...
Feb 2, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Genetically-modified mosquitoes key to stopping Zika virus spread
In 2016, the World Health Organization called the Zika virus epidemic a "public health emergency of international concern" due to the virus causing birth defects for pregnant women in addition to neurological problems. Since ...
Jan 26, 2021
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Overweight & Obesity
Changing diets—not less physical activity—may best explain childhood obesity crisis
Variation in consumption of market-acquired foods outside of the traditional diet—but not in total calories burned daily—is reliably related to indigenous Amazonian children's body fat, according to a Baylor University ...
Jan 18, 2021
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Addiction
Research offers roadmap to address sex differences in opioid epidemic
The opioid epidemic continues in this country in the midst of the current COVID-19 pandemic in the United States.
Jan 14, 2021
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