While death rates among children have declined largely due to improvements in infant survival, deaths among older children from suicide and accidental poisonings have increased, according to a study published in the journal Pediatrics cited in an ABC News report.
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A historically low national uninsured rate of about 9 percent puts "insurers in a position of financial and ethical significance to combat the opioid epidemic," according to a report by the Center on Health Insurance Reforms, based at Georgetown University…
More than 4,000 Ohioans died from drug overdoses in 2016, according a survey of county coroner's offices conducted by The Columbus Dispatch.
As of Tuesday morning, 50 patients are reportedly still being treated for injuries after the suicide bombing in Manchester, U.K., last week. Seventeen of those patients remain in critical care, according to a statement from the National Health Service cited…
After taking in more than a dozen bodies Monday, the Montgomery County coroner's office in downtown Dayton, Ohio, ran out of space for the second time this year, according to a Tribune Review report.
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The NHS' response to the bombing in Manchester, U.K., Monday night has received widespread praise, The Guardian reports.
Republican Governor Nathan Deal signed three pieces of legislation into laws earlier this month to address the opioid abuse crisis in Georgia.
The White House has shifted gears on plans to cut the budget of the Office of National Drug Control Policy by 95 percent, according to a Politico report.
Regional healthcare leaders and Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro gathered at an opioid forum hosted by Independence Blue Cross Foundation Tuesday to discuss strategies to curb the rising rates of opioid overdose deaths in southeastern Pennsylvania.
A review of medical literature revealed a need for more well-designed research on the association between fetal opioid exposure and birth defects.