All articles tagged: Poisoning by unspecified drugs, medicaments and biological substances, accidental (unintentional), initial encounter (T50.901A)

Gun violence in the United States has become a national public health crisis, the U.S. Surgeon General declared Tuesday."Today, for the first time in the history of our office, I am issuing a Surgeon General's Advisory on firearm violence. It outlines the urgent threat firearm violence poses to the health and well-being of our country," <a href

Drug-related infant mortality increased significantly from 2018 to 2022, according to a study published online May 22 in the&nbsp;Journal of Perinatal Medicine.Panagiota Kitsantas, Ph.D., from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, and colleagues used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Wide-ranging Online Da

More than 200 cases of lead poisoning linked to contaminated fruit puree pouches have now been reported in the United States, up from 125 cases in the last weekly tally, with 33 states now reporting poisonings, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said in its <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/news/lead-poisoning-outbreak-linked-to

A conservative strategy of withholding intubation is associated with clinical benefit in comatose patients with acute poisoning, according to a study published online Nov. 29 in the Journal of the American Medical Association to coincide with the annual Critical Care Canada Forum, held from Nov. 28 to Dec. 1 in Toronto.Yonathan Freund, M

Opioid prescribing by physicians and other health professionals has decreased for the 13th consecutive year, down nearly 50 percent since 2012, while overdoses and deaths related to illicitly manufactured fentanyl, xylazine, and other synthetic substances continue to increase, according to the&nbsp;Overdose Epidemic Report 2023, released by

From 2010 to 2021, the gender life expectancy gap increased, with COVID-19 the leading contributor from 2019 to 2021, according to a research letter published online Nov. 13 in JAMA Internal Medicine.Brandon W. Yan, M.D., M.P.H., from the University of California in San Francisco, and colleagues systematically examined the contribution

The incidence of drug overdose-related out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OD-OHCA) more than doubled from 2015 to 2021, according to a study published online Nov. 7 in&nbsp;JAMA Network Open.Vidhushei Yogeswaran, M.D., from University of Washington in Seattle, and colleagues evaluated the temporal pattern, clinical presentation, care, and

The Biden administration is encouraging schools throughout the United States to carry naloxone (Narcan) to help prevent fatal drug overdoses in students. The medication was approved earlier this year as an over-the-counter nasal spray