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While technology alone cannot solve the opioid epidemic, it can play an important role in reducing overprescribing and co-prescribing opioids…
Prescription rates of opioids and benzodiazepines are on the rise among the older adult population, according to two recent studies.…
Physicians are being encouraged to curtail prescribing of powerful narcotics in response to the nation’s opioid crisis. So some patients…
What happens when the medical board of a major state begins reviewing fatal opioid overdoses with an eye to disciplining…
The number of recorded cases of sexually transmitted diseases in the U.S. is at historic levels as a result of…
Politico’s “The Agenda” section has published a special report on Medicare, now and in the future, and how it might…
Socioeconomic factors such as poverty and living conditions play a role in shaping infection risk and disease outcomes. Many times…
Cases of infectious diseases such as hepatitis A, B and C, sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)…
In his landmark Oral Health in America report in 2000, then-Surgeon General David Satcher reminded the nation that oral health…
Nearly a third of older adults have received a prescription for an opioid pain medicine in the past two years,…