Month: May 2023

As doctors and public health officials keep trying to persuade parents to get their kids vaccinated against childhood diseases, the entreaties don’t always do much. Currently, only 69.7% of two-year-olds in the U.S. have received their full vaccine series, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—including shots against measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, … Read more

If you think your life is too boring to be funny, joke’s on you: Humor is all around us. Cultivating more humor in your everyday life is “one of the fastest and most powerful ways to increase overall health and wellbeing,” says Steven M. Sultanoff, a clinical psychologist and professor at Pepperdine University who’s a … Read more

For the first time, the U.S. government will pay for a large study measuring whether overdoses can be prevented by so-called safe injection sites, places where people can use heroin and other illegal drugs and be revived if they take too much. The grant provides more than $5 million over four years to New York … Read more

The supervised injection sites allow people to take illegal drugs like fentanyl under watch of staff trained to reverse overdoses. View original article Contributor: David Ovalle

A federally funded study will look at whether people using drugs in programs in New York City and Rhode Island are less likely to overdose. View original article Contributor: David Ovalle

A mix of fiber and protein is key. These breakfast ideas can help you fuel up. View original article Contributor: Sharon Liao

The supervised injection sites allow people to take illegal drugs like fentanyl under watch of staff trained to reverse overdoses. View original article Contributor: David Ovalle

A federally funded study will look at whether people using drugs in programs in New York City and Rhode Island are less likely to overdose. View original article Contributor: David Ovalle

A mix of fiber and protein is key. These breakfast ideas can help you fuel up. View original article Contributor: Sharon Liao