Dec 04 Deaths during opioid-driven hospital stays have quadrupled By Laura Santhanam The rate of hospitalization among white patients also doubled between 2007 and 2013 -- the “largest and fastest-growing share of hospitalizations” in recent years, according to the study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs. Continue reading
Dec 01 Flu season arrives early and may peak during the holidays By Helen Branswell, STAT If you have been planning to get a flu shot but just haven’t gotten around to it yet, the time to act is now — especially if you hope to be healthy at Christmas. Continue reading
Nov 29 Watch 9:13 For this doctor, a son's recent death by overdose inspires his mission to rescue others By Miles O'Brien Dr. Jim Baker dreaded getting that call for years: his son had fatally overdosed from opioids. He had watched Max go through the downward spiral of addiction, then recover and get sober, but a hospitalization for a car crash made… Continue watching
Nov 29 I can't afford Medicare Part B. How do I prepare for tomorrow's health problems? By Philip Moeller While you have dodged a health care bullet so far, the odds are you will need substantial health care in your later years. Continue reading
Nov 28 Watch 2:55 The opioid crisis affects dogs, too. Here's how police officers protect K-9 partners from overdoses By PBS News Hour Canine police units sniff out suspects, missing people and guns, but they can also encounter potentially lethal opioids like heroin or fentanyl. In light of the national opioid crisis, some officers are getting Narcan training in case their dogs inhale… Continue watching
Nov 23 Watch 2:18 Football fans in Iowa find a way to bring joy to young patients at a nearby hospital By Nsikan Akpan For some families at the University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital, it’s easy to feel disconnected from the world outside. The Kohn family has spent more than 300 days in the children’s ward, while their young son waits for… Continue watching
Nov 22 Sugar industry withheld possible evidence of cancer link 50 years ago, researchers say By Teresa Carey Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco have uncovered documents demonstrating that members of the sugar industry called off a study in the 1960s because it linked sucrose -- a common sugar -- to heart disease and bladder cancer… Continue reading
Nov 20 Let these globe-trotting lessons in potty training flush your parental worries away By Alma Gottlieb, The Conversation An anthropologist explores why there’s no one-size-fits-all model of child-rearing advice for all the world’s parents. Continue reading
Nov 19 Long-awaited study finds monthly Vivitrol as effective as daily pill for opioid addiction By Max Blau, STAT The finding from the largest head-to-head study to date between two leading drugs to treat opioid addiction could dramatically change prescribing habits. Continue reading
Nov 18 Watch 10:23 Researchers chase a better fix for the seasonal flu By Megan Thompson, Mori Rothman The flu and complications from it can kill as many 56,000 Americans every year while costing $10 billion in doctor visits, hospitalizations and medication. But since the strains change so quickly, its vaccine is only around 20 to 60 percent… Continue watching