Mailed opioid disposal kits led to 60 percent of patients who had leftover opioid pain pills properly disposing of them after surgeries, according to a new study by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University ...
May 6, 2022
0
17
A survey of adults with obesity from six Western European countries highlights the struggle people with obesity endure trying to lose weight, and sheds new light on what works and what doesn't when it comes to losing weight.
May 4, 2022
0
29
The WHO said Tuesday that "epidemic" overweight and obesity rates are linked to over 1.2 million deaths annually across Europe, calling for swift policy changes to reverse the dangerous trend.
May 3, 2022
0
105
COVID-19 is far from becoming an endemic disease and could still trigger large epidemics around the globe, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
Apr 14, 2022
0
45
The US opioid crisis has claimed more than 500,000 lives in the last 20 years. It has also spawned one of the most complex legal campaigns in the country's history.
Feb 26, 2022
0
2
Asymptomatic COVID-19 cases are the bane of computer modelers' existences—they throw off the modeling data to an unknown degree. You can't measure what you can't detect, right? A new approach from Los Alamos National Laboratory's ...
Feb 11, 2022
0
24
Distribution of naloxone, a life-saving intervention that can reverse the toxic effects of an opioid overdose, must be substantially expanded across the USA, and include more community-based and pharmacy-initiated access ...
Feb 11, 2022
0
2
The opioid overdose epidemic in the United States remains a critically important public health issue that continues to worsen as time goes on. The estimated death toll in 2021 has reached the historical high of 100,000 overdose ...
Jan 26, 2022
0
3
(HealthDay)—The first injection drug to prevent HIV infection was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Monday.
Dec 21, 2021
0
25
(HealthDay)—Pediatricians should be alert to the possibility of a large respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) epidemic in the coming seasons, according to a study published online Dec. 16 in JAMA Network Open.
Dec 17, 2021
0
17
