One in seven people in the US reported having had long COVID by the end of 2022, suggests a large-scale investigation of long COVID and symptom prevalence by academics at UCL and Dartmouth.
Nov 2, 2023
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Of the 2,900 babies born last year in Cabell County, West Virginia, 500 had to be weaned off of opioid dependence.
Mar 19, 2017
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The proportion of U.S. liver transplants for alcohol-associated liver disease (ALD) has doubled in the last 15 years, in part due to broader acceptance of waiving the mandated period of sobriety before transplants for this ...
Jan 22, 2019
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West Virginia health officials are responding to opioid overdoses by distributing more than 8,000 kits with an antidote—Naloxone—that can get people breathing again if administered in time.
Feb 6, 2017
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Being exposed to work requirements in order to receive nutrition benefits from the U.S. government significantly increased use of mental health care resources for depression and anxiety, a new Northwestern University study ...
Jul 28, 2022
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A bigger share of U.S. drug overdose deaths are being caused by methamphetamine, government health officials reported.
Dec 12, 2018
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Research from the University of Cincinnati shows that exposure to PFAS may delay the onset of puberty in girls. The research was published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
Sep 29, 2023
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A new animal study from Katherine Lee, a researcher with the West Virginia University School of Medicine, investigates why individuals with obesity may have a particularly difficult time fending off SARS-CoV-2, the virus ...
Oct 18, 2022
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Pain is a mosaic. From a distance, it looks like one big "ouch." But if you step closer, many types of pain—like tiles of different shades—emerge. A headache doesn't feel like a papercut. The sting of denim against a ...
Nov 22, 2019
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Working-age Americans in 21 states faced a higher probability of premature death from 1990 to 2016, according to the most extensive state-by-state US health study ever conducted.
Apr 10, 2018
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