In the nation's battle against the diabetes epidemic, the go-to weapon being aggressively promoted to patients is as small as a quarter and worn on the belly or arm.
Mar 18, 2021
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Out-of-hospital cardiac arrests triggered by opioid overdose are a significant cause of death among adults 25 to 64, according to a scientific statement from the American Heart Association, the nation's largest voluntary ...
Mar 8, 2021
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On January 14, 2021, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) submitted notice to the Federal Register that it would issue practice guidelines that exempt physicians from the requirement to apply for a waiver to ...
Feb 25, 2021
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A man in a navy suit grinned as he left an airbase in Guinea's capital Conakry on Wednesday after being vaccinated for Ebola, one of the first to receive the jab since the deadly disease re-emerged in the West African country.
Feb 24, 2021
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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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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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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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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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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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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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