Public Health

A FedEx driver transported three patients to Atlanta-based Grady Hospital after a July 15 shooting, reports CNN.

A stray bullet shattered a window and lodged into a wall at Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C., on the morning of July 15, according to local TV station NBC4.

The University of Montana received a $3.3 million contract from NIH on July 9 to fund development of a vaccine against opioid addiction, according to ABC Fox Montana.

Limiting the supply of opioids and boosting access to treatment are just two parts of the equation to solve the national drug epidemic. The third, less mentioned part is harm reduction, according to Travis Rieder, PhD, a medical bioethicist at…

CMS granted Minnesota and Nebraska approval to implement Medicaid demonstration projects aimed at improving access to treatment for substance use disorders, the agency said June 28.

Two-thirds of drug deaths around the world were caused by opioids in 2017, and that proportion was even higher in the U.S., where overdose deaths reached a new high, according to a report from the United Nations.

Residents in 412 U.S. counties are twice as likely as residents in other counties to be at high risk for opioid overdose deaths, according to a study published in JAMA Network Open.

Three years after the ACA took effect, 20.6 million people with cardiovascular disease and its risk factors still lacked health insurance, despite significant gains among some people with CVD/CVRFs, according to a study published by the Journal of General Internal…

Provisional data from the CDC suggests overdose-related deaths are falling in the U.S., according to The Wall Street Journal.

New Jersey rolled out a first-of-its-kind program that seeks to provide overdose victims with medication-assisted treatment sooner, according to STAT.