A panel of healthcare providers and patients from Baltimore-based Johns Hopkins Medicine developed the country's first set of opioid prescription guidelines for 20 common surgeries.
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Toby Cosgrove, MD, former president and CEO of Cleveland Clinic, discussed America's efforts to combat the opioid epidemic during an Aug. 13 episode of CNBC's program the "Squawk Box," saying he believes the crisis has "peaked."
Emergency medical services' use of naloxone has demonstrated an alarming increase amid the ongoing opioid epidemic, according to research published Aug. 10 in the CDC's most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
National opioid use disorder rates among women delivering a baby more than quadrupled between 1999 and 2014, according to the CDC's most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published Aug. 10.
Federal public health officials are joining Lawrence and Lowell, Mass., health officials with their investigation of a large increase in reported HIV cases, according to NECN.
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An estimated 160 individuals were taken to the hospital during the four-day Lollapalooza music festival, which began Aug. 2 in Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.
Calls to U.S. poison control centers involving tianeptine, an antidepressant used in Europe, Asia and Latin America, have climbed since 2015, according to the CDC's most recent Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published August 3.
Chipotle Mexican Grill faces 518 reports of foodborne illness linked to a possible outbreak at one of its restaurants in Powell, Ohio, according to CNBC.
Lakeport, Calif.-based Sutter Lakeside Hospital was forced to evacuate patients as a deadly wildfire pushed its way into the region, The Sacramento Bee reports.
In Hunterville, Ala., the opioid epidemic has decreased life expectancy by two years, leading community organizers and health professionals to demand more comprehensive addiction treatment, according to WZDX News.