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.
Public Health
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.
Advertisement
A review of medical literature revealed a need for more well-designed research on the association between fetal opioid exposure and birth defects.
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.