Public Health

Despite the kidney pain that sent David Priestman to a Manchester, England, hospital Monday night, he voluntarily discharged himself to allow victims of the terrorist attack at an Ariana Grande concert that evening to use his bed, reports the Daily…

Scott Gottlieb, MD, the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, called on agency colleagues to take "more forceful steps" to address the nation's opioid abuse crisis and announced the formation of a new opioid committee in an agency…

Residents of Ohio, which carries one of the highest rates of overall opioid overdose deaths, have a new place to go for addiction services.

The number of uninsured Americans has decreased by millions since 2010, although little change occurred between 2015 and 2016, according to new data from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics.

More than one in four Americans — including more than a third of millennials — know someone who is or has been been addicted to opioids or prescription painkillers, according to a new national poll released by the American Psychiatric…

Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that can be 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, is increasingly appearing in heroin, unbeknownst to users. But now there is a way for heroin users to test for the potentially lethal drug before…

The U.S. uninsured rate was 9 percent in 2016, an insignificant difference from the 9.1 percent recorded in 2015, according to the CDC.

An Ohio police officer was transported to the hospital Friday evening after nearly overdosing from contact with fentanyl, a synthetic opioid nearly 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, according to the Morning Journal.

Addiction experts claim HHS Secretary Tom Price's, MD, recent comments about medication-assisted treatment for addiction were ill-informed and contradicted information released by the HHS department, according to an NPR report.

State and county police are investigating the fatal shooting of Tywon Salters, an inmate who stole a correctional officer's gun and held two nurses hostage May 13 at Geneva, Ill.-based Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital, reports Daily Herald.