Tag: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The AMA must stay to the path of ‘do no harm’

Frederick J. White · August 14, 2018 4:00 am

FILE - This Tuesday, Aug. 15, 2017 file photo shows an arrangement of pills of the opioid oxycodone-acetaminophen in New York. On Thursday, Aug,. 9, 2018, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the number of opioid-addicted pregnant women shot up dramatically in the last 15 years.

Rate of opioid abuse quadruples among women giving birth

Kimberly Leonard · August 9, 2018 5:43 pm

Puerto Rico resident Michelle Flandez caresses her two-month-old son Inti Perez (pictured center), diagnosed with microcephaly linked to the mosquito-borne Zika virus, in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.

CDC study finds Zika virus leading to long-term health problems for babies

Robert King · August 7, 2018 5:46 pm

The urgent case for nonaddictive cigarettes

Washington Examiner · July 31, 2018 4:00 am

Pistols fill a case before an auction at Johnny's Auction House, where the company handles gun sales for a half dozen police departments and the Lewis County Sheriff's Office, in Rochester, Wash.

CDC: Gun homicides jumped 31 percent in two years

Kimberly Leonard · July 26, 2018 6:46 pm

Honey Smacks is a sweetened puffed wheat breakfast cereal made by Kellogg's.

CDC: Do not eat any Honey Smacks cereal because of salmonella outbreak

Robert King · July 13, 2018 2:45 pm

Overdoses linked to fentanyl may need multiple doses of antidote naloxone, CDC says

Robert King · July 11, 2018 11:18 pm

Among smokers, cigarette smoking is more popular than vaping, new poll shows

Robert King · July 9, 2018 6:37 pm

Posters comparing lethal amounts of heroin, fentanyl, and carfentanil, are on display during a news conference about the dangers of fentanyl.

Appropriations bill adds $3.7 billion for fighting opioid epidemic

Robert King · June 26, 2018 4:09 pm

FILE - In this March 16, 2013 file photo, an officer of the Prosecutor General's Office guards packages containing cocaine during a media presentation at the airport in Tumaco, Colombia. A year after the peace accords between the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, FARC, in 2016, the city is disputed among criminal gangs and a dissident FARC movement, all of which are recruiting former rebels whose only marketable skill is wielding a gun.

Cocaine production in Colombia jumped 19 percent in 2017

Robert King · June 25, 2018 4:24 pm

The amount of opioids prescribed in 2015 was enough for every American to be medicated around the clock for three weeks. (AP Photo/Chris Post)

House passes 25 bills to fight opioid addiction and overdoses

Kimberly Leonard · June 12, 2018 11:58 pm

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Broken relationships are at the heart of the suicide epidemic

Suzanne Venker · June 11, 2018 4:01 pm