Public Health

Sibley Memorial Hospital (Washington, D.C.). Sibley Memorial Hospital opened a new patient tower in 2016 with an eye on environmentally friendly construction. The 50,000-square-foot tower houses a LEED gold certified radiation oncology center and two large vegetative roofs. The tower…

Richmond, Va.-based Bon Secours St. Mary's Hospital achieved an 80 percent reduction in postoperative opioid use among laparoscopic colorectal surgical patients after implementing a new surgical recovery program, according to a report from the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Police arrested an Ohio man accused of stealing an ambulance with a patient and medic on board Oct. 20, reports WHIO-TV 7.

Republican Gov. John Kasich said his office is looking into whether drug distributors should be added as defendants in Ohio's opioid epidemic lawsuit, according to a report from the Statehouse News Bureau.

A new QuintilesIMS analysis found women use opioids far more than their male counterparts.

A King County (Wash.) Superior Court judge voted against a citizen-led initiative that sought to ban an earlier statute allowing the creation of "safe injection sites," which would allow drug misusers to partake in drug use under the supervision of…

The health insurance industry's largest trade group, America's Health Insurance Plans, unveiled its Safe, Transparent Opioid Prescribing initiative.

The percentage of Americans lacking health insurance grew to 12.3 percent in the third quarter of this year, up from 11.7 percent in the previous quarter, according to a Gallup-Sharecare Well-Being Index poll.

Massachusetts providers issued about 638,000 Schedule II opioid prescriptions in the second quarter of 2017, which represents a 28 percent reduction compared to the first quarter 2015, according to data the Massachusetts Department of Public Health released Thursday.

As opioid overdose deaths surge in America, millions of people around the world die in preventable pain, according to a study published in The Lancet.