The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that drug overdose deaths have decline by nearly 27% in 2024. The agency credits strengthened public health infrastructure and community ...

Prof. Robert Valuck, who runs the Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention at the University of Colorado School of ...

Overcrowding, poor ventilation, malnutrition, and high HIV prevalence have created a perfect breeding area for TB ...

For many months now, the city of Milwaukee has been grappling with a lead poisoning crisis that has forced at least four schools to temporarily close and dozens more to undergo rigorous inspections.

Deaths fell in every state except Nevada and South Dakota, with some of the steepest declines recorded in hard-hit states like Ohio and West Virginia. Nationally, deaths linked to fentanyl and other ...

The CDC has been collecting comparable data for 45 years. The previous largest one-year drop was 4% in 2018, according to the ...

Drug overdose deaths in the U.S. fell sharply in 2024, with new government data showing the steepest year-over-year decline ...

According to the CDC, the deadliest drugs were those containing ... President Donald Trump has highlighted fentanyl overdoses as a public health crisis and national emergency, and repeatedly ...