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One in 5 Women Reported Mistreatment While Receiving Maternity Care

Date
Monday, August 21, 2023 - 10:00 PM
Description
Twenty percent of women surveyed reported experiences of mistreatment during pregnancy and delivery care, according to a new CDC Vital Signs report. Mistreatment during maternity care was higher among Black (30%), Hispanic (29%), and multiracial (27%

Overdose Deaths Accelerating During COVID-19

Date
Friday, December 18, 2020 - 9:10 AM
Description
Over 81,000 drug overdose deaths occurred in the United States in the 12 months ending in May 2020, the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a 12-month period, according to recent provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control

Outbreak of Lung Injury Associated with E-Cigarette Use, or Vaping

Date
Friday, September 06, 2019 - 7:25 AM
Description
As of August 27, 2019, 215 possible cases of severe pulmonary disease associated with the use of electronic cigarette, or e-cigarette, products, have been reported by 25 states and additional pulmonary illnesses are under investigation.

One in five US adults still using tobacco products in 2015 - Press Release

Date
Thursday, November 09, 2017 - 10:40 AM
Description
About 1 in 5 U.S. adults used some form of tobacco product in 2015, according to new data published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products in the Morbidity and

Opioid Prescribing is Still High and Varies from County to County

Date
Thursday, July 06, 2017 - 9:47 AM
Description
There has been an overall decline in the amount of opioids prescribed in the United States. But the amount is still extremely high, with the amount of prescribed opioids in 2015 approximately three times higher than the amount in 1999.