Alcohol misuse in adolescence is associated with poor health and unhappiness in adulthood. According to Rutgers and Virginia Commonwealth University-led research, teenagers who abuse alcohol…
Study shows that between 2013-2018, as many states were legalizing recreational marijuana, cancer patients continued to abstain in large numbers. Last month, three states –…
COVID-19 has widened the life expectancy gap across racial groups and between the US and peer countries. U.S. life expectancy decreased by 1.87 years between…
Black Americans experienced highest per capita excess death rates, while regional surges contributed to higher excess death rates from COVID-19 and other causes, a VCU-led…
States that reopened sooner, such as Texas, Arizona and Florida, experienced summer surges, report says. For every two deaths attributed to COVID-19 in the U.S.,…
Since COVID-19’s spread to the United States earlier this year, death rates in the U.S. have risen significantly. But deaths attributed to COVID-19 only account…
An international team of researchers has discovered a new protein called ceramide-1 phosphate transport protein (CPTP) that has the potential to aid in the treatment…
