by Jessica Casebolt | May 4, 2023 | Life Sciences, Tea Leaves
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday approved the first vaccine to prevent infections caused by respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a widespread pathogen that can be deadly in young children and older adults. Approval of the vaccine, which was...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 3, 2023 | Opioid/Substance Use Disorders, Tea Leaves
Drug overdose death rates involving fentanyl more than tripled in the US from 2016 to 2021. The rate of overdose deaths involving fentanyl spiked by 279 percent between 2016 and 2021, according to a report published by the National Center for Health Statistics....
by Jessica Casebolt | May 3, 2023 | Access & Coverage, Tea Leaves
Vermont on Tuesday become the first state in the nation to update its medically assisted suicide law to allow out-of-state terminally ill people to use the procedure to end their lives. The law, which for a decade has permitted doctors to prescribe life-ending...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 2, 2023 | Public Health/Prevention, Tea Leaves
The U.S. Surgeon General released an advisory on Tuesday calling attention to the public health crisis of loneliness, isolation, and lack of connection in the United States. The report cites recent research showing that approximately half of U.S. adults experienced...
by Jessica Casebolt | May 2, 2023 | Mental Health, Tea Leaves
Close to a third of LGBTQ youth say laws and policies that target LGBTQ people have had a substantial and negative impact on their mental health over the past year, according to an annual report published Monday by The Trevor Project, a national LGBTQ youth suicide...
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