A mass shooting Sunday night on the Las Vegas strip left more than 50 people dead and hundreds of others injured, according to a Los Angeles Times report.
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CMS is offering special enrollment periods for Medicare beneficiaries and others affected by hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria.
The U.S. Navy will send the USNS Comfort, its hospital ship, to aid relief efforts in Puerto Rico a week after Hurricane Maria clobbered the island, according to CNN.
The CDC launched the Rx Awareness campaign Monday to educate Americans on the dangers associated with opioid misuse.
Officials at Ashford Presbyterian Community Hospital, a 199-bed facility in San Juan, Puerto Rico, said hospital management and administrators slept in the hospital despite the facility losing power when Hurricane Maria made landfall Wednesday, according to CNN.
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Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico Sept. 20 as a Category 4 storm. Extreme flooding and strong winds knocked out power lines across the island, forcing many businesses to turn to alternative sources of power, if capable.
Surging opioid overdose deaths rates fueled a more than three-month loss in estimated life expectancy at birth in 2015, according to a recent study published in JAMA.
New York City authorities seized more than 200 pounds of opioids in two separate drug busts in August and September, reports NJ.com.
Hospitals in regions with tougher gun laws on average experience lower rates of emergency department visits for pediatric firearm-related injuries, according to a study slated to be presented at the 2017 American Academy of Pediatrics national conference in Chicago from…
A new Netflix documentary called "Heroin(e)" follows three women — a fire chief, a judge and a street missionary — who are working to address the opioid crisis ravaging Huntington, W.Va.