CDC: Heroin overdose deaths surpass gun homicides for first time
(By Brian Zimmerman for Becker’s Hospital Review) Heroin overdose deaths narrowly surpassed gun homicides as the more prolific killer last
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Emerging Health Issues
Adding A Funny Form Of Carbon To Silly Putty Creates A Heart Monitor
(By Joe Palca for NPR) Scientists in Ireland are using a rather unexpected material to make an extremely sensitive pressure
Read MoreDelivered ‘Like A Pizza’: Why Killer Drug Fentanyl Is So Hard To Stop
(By Martha Babanger, WBUR for Kaiser Health News) The latest chart of overdose deaths in Massachusetts shows a climbing blue
Read MoreHow health systems across the US are improving price transparency
(By Kelly Gooch for Becker’s Hospital Review) Physician organizations, hospitals and health systems are under increasing pressure to deliver transparent,
Read MoreClinics Help Keep People With Serious Mental Illness Out Of ER
(by Liz Szabo for Kaiser Health News) SAN ANTONIO— Yolanda Solar has battled a life-threatening disease for more than three
Read MoreEli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug fails in late-stage trial, dashing hopes
(By Damian Garde for STAT) An investigational Alzheimer’s treatment from Eli Lilly failed to slow the progression of the memory-destroying
Read MoreTwo patient deaths halt trial of Juno’s new approach to treating cancer
(By Damian Garde and Meghana Keshavan for STAT) In a major blow to a new approach to treating cancer, two patients
Read MoreHoping to attack opioid epidemic at its source, state Medicaid programs are limiting prescriptions
(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News published in partnership with STAT) As the abuse of prescription painkillers stubbornly persists
Read MoreIs Zika still a public health emergency?
(By Helen Branswell for STAT) On Nov. 20, 2015, the World Health Organization warned the spread of Zika virus in
Read MoreTheir brains had the telltale signs of Alzheimer’s. So why did they still have nimble minds?
(By Sharon Begley for STAT) The defective proteins that are widely thought to kill brain neurons and cause, or at
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