2018

By: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)The National Diabetes Statistics Report is a periodic publication of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that provides updated statistics about diabetes in the United States for a scientific audience. It includes information on prevalence and incidence of diabetes, prediabetes, risk factors for complications, acute and […]

By: National Institute of Environmental Health SciencesScientists have identified key compounds produced when the body metabolizes omega fatty acids that can reduce the severity of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in mice. By increasing these lipid metabolites and preventing them from degrading, the researchers reduced abnormal blood vessel growth, in part by regulating the movement of […]

By: U.S. Food and Drug AdministrationIs your medicine cabinet full of expired drugs or medications you no longer use? Your medicine is for you. What’s safe for you might be harmful for someone else. You can dispose of your expired, unwanted, or unused medicines through a drug take back program — or you can do […]

View the National Safety Council’s presentation on what Americans believe about opioid prescription painkiller use here.

By: National Institute of Environmental Health SciencesParticles in dust from abandoned uranium mines may be damaging to thelungs and heart, according to new research from the University of New MexicoSuperfund Research Program (UNM SRP) Center. The researchers showed thatexposure to particles less than 10 micrometers in diameter (PM10) from an olduranium mine, compared to PM10 […]

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By: Julie O’Donnell, PhD; R. Matthew Gladden, PhD; Christine L. Mattson, PhD; Mbabazi Kariisa, PhDFentanyl and fentanyl analogs are increasingly involved in opioid overdose deaths, and new fentanyl analogs continue to be identified (1). Carfentanil, the most potent fentanyl analog detected in the United States, is intended for sedation of large animals and is estimated […]