Opioid overdose deaths are trending up compared to 2019 in at least 21 of the largest counties in the U.S., new data collected by The Wall Street Journal shows.
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For a closer look at efforts to improve patient outcomes, Becker's Hospital Review asked organizations included on U.S. News & World Report's 2020-21 Best Hospitals rankings for cancer care to share changes that brought about those improvements in the last year. Read their responses…
COVID-19 cases in the U.S. nearly quadrupled over the summer, rising by more than 6.2 million cases between Memorial Day weekend and Sept. 8. according to data tracked by The Washington Post. The number of Americans who died of COVID-19…
The national percentage of positive COVID-19 tests increased slightly in the week ending Aug. 29 after declining since mid-July, according to the CDC's weekly COVIDView report.
The world has entered "a pandemic era" in which humans' impact on the environment may cause new infectious diseases to emerge more frequently, Anthony Fauci, MD, and his colleague David Morens, MD, wrote in an article for Cell.
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COVID-19 patients may have antibodies up to four months after contracting the virus, according to an Icelandic study published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
A COVID-19 outbreak at Hartford HealthCare's Backus Hospital in Norwich, Conn., has been linked to an isolated individual from a local nursing home, Donna Handley, hospital president, confirmed to Becker's Hospital Review Sept. 4.
The U.S. reported an average of 40,530 cases daily in the past week, down 12 percent from the average seen two weeks ago, reports The New York Times.
A former spokesperson for the Iowa Department of Public Health claims the state made "a deliberate effort to thwart open communication" about COVID-19 in a wrongful termination lawsuit filed Sept. 3, reports The New York Times.
New research shows that mental health symptoms are strongly associated with avoiding medical care amid the COVID-19 pandemic.