Oct 07 Urban noise pollution is worst in poor and minority neighborhoods and segregated cities By Joan A Casey, Peter James, Rachel Morello-Forsch, The Conversation Nationwide, neighborhoods with higher poverty rates and proportions of black, Hispanic and Asian residents have higher noise levels than other neighborhoods. Continue reading
Oct 06 Trump weakens Obamacare's birth control mandate By Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, Associated Press The Trump administration is allowing more employers to opt out of providing no-cost birth control to women for religious and moral reasons. Continue reading
Oct 05 How treating opioids with more opioids has divided the recovery community By Elizabeth Flock In this Florida county, some believe medication is the only thing that can stop the opioids deaths. Others say a life on medication isn't a life at all. Continue reading
Oct 05 WATCH LIVE: Senate committee weighs federal response to opioid crisis By Laura Santhanam The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee is scheduled to convene at 10 a.m. ET to discuss how well the federal government has responded to a mounting public health crisis over opioids. Continue reading
Oct 04 Twitter chat: Americans are pessimistic about the opioid crisis. What does that mean for a solution? By Lora Strum The PBS NewsHour will host a Twitter chat on the opioid crisis at 1 p.m. ET Oct. 5. Continue reading
Oct 03 Poll: Most Americans think Trump hasn't done enough to fix opioid crisis By Laura Santhanam Only 2 percent of adults nationwide said the country’s opioid problem improved over the last year. Continue reading
Oct 02 Saving the babies of the opioid epidemic By Laura Santhanam On bad days, five new babies are born in withdrawal from opioids at Cabell County-Huntington Hospital in southern West Virginia. In the neonatal therapeutic unit, there are zero unoccupied beds, but staff can't turn the infants away. On one week… Continue reading
Oct 02 Column: How to talk to your kids about opioids By Margie Skeer, Tufts University Chances are good that even young teenagers will have heard about opioids and overdose deaths at some point. But Margie Skeer from Tufts University warns that pretending that opioid use is not a problem – or thinking that a child… Continue reading
Oct 01 Years after silently combating sexual trauma, female veterans seek help By Anna Casey, Kaiser Health News Many women who served in the military decades ago were victims of sexual assaults but often felt compelled to keep quiet. Continue reading
Sep 30 Deadly West Nile virus cases are spiking in LA. The first line of defense: chickens By Usha Lee McFarling, STAT More than six dozen sentinel chickens, living in coops dotted around Los Angeles, make up one of the first lines of defense in this sprawling county’s fight against West Nile virus. Continue reading