For young and middle-aged adults, premature deaths have been on the rise since 2010. A large share of these deaths are from "deaths of despair" and a new study shows that preventing these deaths ...

Older adolescent African American and Latina females have disproportionately high rates of unintended pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections (STIs). This article describes the development of ...

A major challenge in connecting people living with HIV to proper care is a changing workforce, say the researchers. The number of HIV specialists is declining, despite a growing patient population ...

Correspondence to Dr Juliana S Oliveira, Sydney Musculoskeletal Health, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales 2050, Australia; juliana.oliveira{at}sydney.edu.au Intervention Intervention ...

Every suicide is heartbreaking, leaving loved ones wondering what went wrong and how they could have prevented such a tragedy. And yet suicide rates are currently at their highest level since World ...

Objective The effect of fall prevention exercise programmes in residential aged care (RAC) is uncertain. This paper reports on an intervention component analysis (ICA) of randomised controlled trials ...

A University of Houston pharmacological researcher believes that prescribing the drug Metformin for children and teens as soon as they are diagnosed with mental illnesses, like bipolar disorder and ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine hosted a workshop to examine family-focused interventions that have been used to address substance use disorders in adolescent primary ...

Researchers evaluated differences in effectiveness of 2 couple-based preventive interventions aimed to reduce the spread of HIV and sexually transmitted infections among individuals in community ...

Firearm injuries account for nearly $3 billion in emergency department and inpatient care each year, while firearm deaths remain in the third-leading category of injury-related deaths in the US.