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(HealthDay)—Opioid overdose deaths rose in several states during the coronavirus pandemic, according to authors of a new study who say their findings may help identify and assist at-risk people. “Our work represents the first multi-state report with detailed analyses,” said study senior author Mohammad Jalali, an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School in Boston. His […]
In the spring of 2020, as Massachusetts experienced a surge in COVID-19 cases in the Boston area, four area hospitals conducted universal testing among all pregnant patients at the time of admission for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. At the time, Massachusetts had the third highest rate of infection in the country. In an […]
Cases of Legionnaires’ disease reached a record high in 2018—a more than eight-fold increase since the numbers began to climb nearly two decades ago. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported this week 9,933 cases in 2018 of Legionellosis, which includes both Legionnaires’ disease and Pontiac fever. Legionnaires’ disease made up the vast majority […]
Diabetes epidemic hits the under-40s: Obesity crisis sparks ‘public health timebomb’ as it emerges one in EIGHT new diabetes cases is a young adult Scientists looked at over 370,800 type 2 diabetics diagnosed in 2000-to-2017 One in eight new cases in the UK occurred in someone aged 18-to-40 in 2017 This is compared to just […]
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection. According to the Center for Disease Control, 79 million Americans, most in their late teens and early 20s, are infected with HPV. Yet recently-published research out of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston found that more than 70% of adults living in […]
Does the treatment success of a certain procedure depend on the number of cases in a hospital or on how often the doctors working there have already performed this procedure? In Germany, this is the subject of 8 commissions on minimum volumes awarded by the Federal Joint Committee (G-BA) to the Institute for Quality and […]
When it comes to how people view the group size of a collaboration, new University of Toronto research finds there’s such a thing as too many—and too few—cooks in the kitchen. The research, published in the journal Social Psychology and Personality Science, looks at what people expect from collaborations of different sizes. “People have an […]
For the second year in a row there has been a reduction in the number of confirmed cases of HIV in New Zealand. In 2018, 178 cases were reported – a decrease from the 198 reported in 2017 and 251 in 2016, figures released today by the AIDS Epidemiology Group, University of Otago, show. HIV […]
Results from a new study led by Boston Medical Center (BMC) found routine Hepatitis C testing identified a significant number of cases that would have been missed by targeted testing among a population of individuals in Washington State prisons. Published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, the authors recommend routine testing in correctional facilities […]
Duncan Evans' sporting prowess is a source of pride to his parents. Yet his mother Fran said she worries about the risk of head injury every time her 18-year-old son, who plays for the Randwick Rugby Club, takes to the pitch. Fran Evans, pictured with her son Duncan, said there is always a risk of […]