Medications

Five states announce new suits over prescription opioids

Five more state attorneys general announced legal filings Thursday seeking to hold the company that makes OxyContin responsible for an opioid addiction crisis that's now the leading cause of accidental deaths across the country ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Q&A on hepatitis C epidemic in Appalachian states

A recent study released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that hepatitis C cases across four Appalachian states—Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Virginia—more than tripled between 2006 ...

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