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Marijuana and hallucinogen use by young adults reached historic highs in 2021

Marijuana and hallucinogen use in the past year reported by young adults 19 to 30 years old increased significantly in 2021 compared to five and 10 years ago, reaching historic highs in this age group since 1988, according to the Monitoring the Future (MTF) panel study.

22 Aug 2022

What is the impact of cannabis use in adolescence?

A new study summarized the use of cannabis among adolescents, its negative health impacts, and interventions to stop or reduce

22 Aug 2022

Policies to roll back abortion rights will hit incarcerated people particularly hard

Policies governing abortion and reproductive health care services in U.S. prisons and jails were restrictive and often hostile even before the Supreme Court removed Roe v. Wade's constitutional protections for abortions.

22 Aug 2022

Grassroots work leads to vaccination success in Georgia refugee community

Naw Mu Chaw had questions about the possible side effects of a covid-19 vaccine.

22 Aug 2022

Celebrating 10 Years of Global Research with Breast Cancer Now Tissue Bank

Breast Cancer Now Tissue Bank have just celebrated 10 years of groundbreaking breast cancer research. We spoke to Professor Louise Jones to find out more about this achievement!

22 Aug 2022

Dentists need to be aware of and alert to oral monkeypox symptomology, warn experts

Monkeypox is an increasing worldwide problem recently declared a public health emergency in the United States. Among classical symptoms that include fever, muscle aches, lymph node swelling and rash are oral lesions present in up to 70% of cases.

22 Aug 2022

Flexible e-learning program improves neonate pain management knowledge and skills for nurses

Adults self-report their pain on a one to 10 numerical score, while children can point to an equivalent face scale - from a green smiling face to a red crying face - to indicate their pain.

19 Aug 2022

Abortion is shaking up attorneys general races and exposing limits to their powers

As the country grapples with states' newfound power to regulate abortion in the aftermath of this summer's U.S. Supreme Court decision, state attorney general candidates are staking claims on what they'll do to fight or defend access to abortion — and that's attracting cash and votes.

19 Aug 2022

Out-of-pocket costs may prevent uninsured Americans from accessing naloxone

The cost of buying the opioid antidote naloxone is out of reach for many uninsured Americans, a hurdle that may keep the treatment from saving more people who overdose on opioids, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

19 Aug 2022

Increased rates of paramedic transports could contribute to overcrowding, long wait times in the EDs

Increase in paramedic transport rates over the last decade far exceeds population growth and walk-in emergency department (ED) visits in Ontario, according to a new study from ICES and McMaster University.

19 Aug 2022

Giving out vape starter kit vouchers on the NHS could help entrenched smokers quit

Giving out vape starter kit vouchers on the NHS could help even hardened smokers quit, according to a new study from the University of East Anglia.

18 Aug 2022

COVID-19 pandemic has increased pregnancy complications and maternal death during delivery

Researchers investigate whether pregnancy-related complications and obstetric outcomes changed significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

18 Aug 2022

Nepal has the highest death rate from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, study reveals

Nepal has the world's highest age-adjusted death rate for chronic lung disease at 182.5 per 100,000 population, with more than 3,000 years lost to ill health or disability from the condition, according to an international study.

18 Aug 2022

NIH-funded centers of excellence to conduct research on the role of telehealth in cancer care

The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, will award $23 million to four academic institutions to establish centers of excellence that will conduct research on the role of telehealth in delivering cancer-related health care, a practice that became more prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

18 Aug 2022

Sleepless nights over her children’s future as debts pile up

Jeni Rae Peters' budget has always been tight. But Peters, a single mom and mental health counselor, has worked to provide opportunities for her children, including two girls she adopted and a succession of foster children. One of her daughters had been homeless.

18 Aug 2022

Her brother landed in a nursing home. She was sued over his bill.

Lucille Brooks was stunned to discover a nursing home in Monroe County, New York, was suing her. She had never been a patient there. Nor had her husband. "I thought this was crazy," she said, figuring it had to be a mistake.

18 Aug 2022

Haunted for 13 years by debt from childbirth, then rescued by a nonprofit

Two months ahead of her due date with her second daughter, Terri Logan felt weighed down by stress. She was a high school math teacher in Union City, Georgia, and was ending her relationship with the baby's father.

18 Aug 2022

Some rural hospitals are in such bad shape, local governments are practically giving them away

Kyle Kopec gets a kick out of leading tours through the run-down hospitals his boss is snapping up, pointing out what he calls relics of poor management left by a revolving door of operators. But there's a point to exposing their state of disrepair — the company he works for, Braden Health, is buying buildings worth millions of dollars for next to nothing.

18 Aug 2022

Quality improvement program enhances Pneumococcal vaccination rates amongst high risk patients

In this study published in the American Journal of Kidney Diseases (AJKD), a quality improvement program that utilized electronic best practice alerts within the electronic medical record boosted pneumococcal vaccination rates from 53% to 70% (P < 0.001) in adults age 18-64 years with stage 4 and 5 chronic kidney disease.

18 Aug 2022

Researchers investigate the acceptance of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy in Germany

It has become obvious that sufficiently high immunity to COVID-19 cannot be achieved in Germany through voluntary vaccination alone.

17 Aug 2022

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Marijuana and hallucinogen use by young adults reached historic highs in 2021

What is the impact of cannabis use in adolescence?

Policies to roll back abortion rights will hit incarcerated people particularly hard

Grassroots work leads to vaccination success in Georgia refugee community

Celebrating 10 Years of Global Research with Breast Cancer Now Tissue Bank

Dentists need to be aware of and alert to oral monkeypox symptomology, warn experts

Flexible e-learning program improves neonate pain management knowledge and skills for nurses

Abortion is shaking up attorneys general races and exposing limits to their powers

Out-of-pocket costs may prevent uninsured Americans from accessing naloxone

Increased rates of paramedic transports could contribute to overcrowding, long wait times in the EDs

Giving out vape starter kit vouchers on the NHS could help entrenched smokers quit

COVID-19 pandemic has increased pregnancy complications and maternal death during delivery

Nepal has the highest death rate from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, study reveals

NIH-funded centers of excellence to conduct research on the role of telehealth in cancer care

Sleepless nights over her children’s future as debts pile up

Her brother landed in a nursing home. She was sued over his bill.

Haunted for 13 years by debt from childbirth, then rescued by a nonprofit

Some rural hospitals are in such bad shape, local governments are practically giving them away

Quality improvement program enhances Pneumococcal vaccination rates amongst high risk patients

Researchers investigate the acceptance of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination policy in Germany

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