• A troubling new report released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that almost 40 percent of American adults and nearly 20 percent of adolescents are obese - the highest rates ever recorded for the U.S. (today.com)
  • This strongly suggests that if there is no effective intervention, the disease pattern associated with dengue in the Americas has the potential to evolve as it did in Southeast Asia, resulting in major epidemics of severe and fatal hemorrhagic disease. (cdc.gov)
  • To help cope with this increasing threat in the absence of effective emergency mosquito control measures, we have developed a broad, community-based, integrated program designed to prevent major epidemics of DHF/DSS in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. (cdc.gov)
  • In the past, major epidemics of yellow fever caused tens of thousands of deaths. (msdmanuals.com)
  • Between 1999 and 2017, an estimated 250,000 Americans died from overdoses involving prescription painkillers, a plague ignited by Purdue Pharma's aggressive marketing of OxyContin. (eagleharborbooks.com)
  • In 2014, nearly 19,000 Americans died from overdoses linked to opioid painkillers - sometimes opioids alone, other times involving other drugs like alcohol and benzodiazepines , which are typically prescribed to relieve anxiety. (vox.com)
  • While, WHO classifies 10 homicides per 100,000 inhabitants as an epidemic, the average in LAC was 24 in 2016, marginally reduced to 21.6 in 2018. (ipsnews.net)
  • If the initiative is funded, states and local areas will begin implementing their Ending the HIV Epidemic plans in 2020. (cdc.gov)
  • With the exception of Comoro and Lesotho, other member states had been affected by the epidemic by the 15th of April 2020 (WHO, 2020). (who.int)
  • The United States is in the grip of an epidemic of prescription drug overdoses. (cdc.gov)
  • Overdoses have become the leading cause of death for Americans under the age of 55, killing more people than HIV/AIDS, car crashes or gun violence ever did at their peaks. (wgbh.org)
  • To put the surge in perspective: "The death rate from drug overdoses is climbing at a much faster pace than other causes of death," so much so that "the trend is now similar to that of the human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, epidemic in the late 1980s and early 1990s, said Robert Anderson, the CDC's chief of mortality statistics. (iwf.org)
  • Report from Ellen-Marie Whelan, Lesley Russell, and Sonia Sekhar examines how recently passed health care legislation will address the childhood obesity epidemic. (americanprogress.org)
  • While harming the health of millions of Americans, obesity is concurrently contributing greatly to rising health care costs-more than a quarter of America's health care costs estimated to be related to obesity. (americanprogress.org)
  • High blood pressure , diabetes, heart disease and stroke are not only killing millions of Americans annually - the obesity epidemic is also a humongous burden on the American health care system, making up $190 billion a year in weight-related medical bills. (today.com)
  • While America has been focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, there's another disease that is stealing the health of our kids: childhood obesity. (nicholsonclinic.com)
  • This increase parallels the obesity epidemic. (medscape.com)
  • In other words, we're talking about a national epidemic of self-inflicted deaths. (commondreams.org)
  • Despite advances in health care and quality of life, white middle-aged Americans have seen overall mortality rates increase over the past 15 years, representing an overlooked "epidemic" with deaths comparable to the number of Americans who have died of AIDS, according to new Princeton University research. (princeton.edu)
  • This figure is comparable to the number of deaths caused by the AIDS epidemic in America. (princeton.edu)
  • One of the most troubling trends was the massive disparities in heart disease deaths across America. (vox.com)
  • Unlike the COVID-19 pandemic, which hit elderly Americans hardest, researchers found drug deaths have risen fastest among the young and middle-aged adults struggling with addiction. (northernpublicradio.org)
  • The most recent DHF epidemic in the Americas, which occurred in Venezuela in 1990, produced 3,108 known DHF cases and 73 deaths. (cdc.gov)
  • An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" dramatically recounts the true story of the yellow fever epidemic that nearly decimated the population of Philadelphia at the end of the 18th century. (ala.org)
  • Robert P. Watson, writing about the yellow fever epidemic that struck Philadelphia in 1793, tells a story we can resonate with because of our own experiences with Covid-19. (rowman.com)
  • However, we wonder, if during the past two decades the Times ' readership had been exposed to the broader debate about ADHD, would the epidemic that the Times is now writing about be as severe? (madinamerica.com)
  • Here in Massachusetts the problem is becoming so severe it's been labeled "epidemic. (americanalarm.com)
  • So why don't Americans know about the severe chronic problems created by long-term psychiatric drug use? (mindfreedom.org)
  • Epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) is a severe disease of the eye, caused by members of the Adenoviridae (Ad) family, with symptoms such as keratitis, conjunctivitis, pain, edema, and reduced vision that may last for months or years. (lu.se)
  • The current epidemic is very severe compared to the 20 previous outbreaks2 recorded in Central Africa. (who.int)
  • Police brutality is a national crisis, but the underlying structural violence - racism, economic injustice and militarism - is a national epidemic. (commondreams.org)
  • While I agree, we should go a step further and address our national epidemic of structural violence. (commondreams.org)
  • How should we respond to this national epidemic and the murder of Michael Brown? (commondreams.org)
  • We have to demand justice that restores our communities through listening, power sharing and mutual respect and moves us toward a cure for this national epidemic. (commondreams.org)
  • The peak incidence of cases (June 1999) was earlier than previous epidemics with no cases registered in November/December 1999. (who.int)
  • The increased disease incidence, combined with the increased frequency of epidemic dengue caused by multiple virus serotypes, has increased the risk of epidemic DHF. (cdc.gov)
  • Incidence is lower in African Americans. (medscape.com)
  • Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, public-health experts were concerned about an epidemic of loneliness in the U.S. The coronavirus has exacerbated that problem, with most face-to-face socializing for people still under lockdown orders indefinitely limited to members of their own households. (time.com)
  • While the most recent data show just 14% of American adults and about 5% of high school teenagers smoke cigarettes, a January report from health-insurer Cigna suggested around 60% of American adults felt some degree of loneliness, even before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. (time.com)
  • for human use, the epidemic of cholera in from 1817 to 1923 there were 6 pandemic the year 1999 was anticipated. (who.int)
  • Drug overdose epidemic worsened during COVID pandemic [Internet]. (bvsalud.org)
  • Grosse Isle, Quebec is an island in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, home to a quarantine station set up in 1832 to contain a cholera epidemic, and home to thousands of Irish emigrants from 1832 to 1848. (wikipedia.org)
  • ABSTRACT An epidemic of cholera in Iraq was anticipated for the year 1999 and a plan of notification and treatment of cases of diarrhoea was made. (who.int)
  • This paper documents the clinical and bacteriological profile of cholera cases admitted to the 6 hospitals in Baghdad during the epidemic. (who.int)
  • England was severely af- and bacteriological data of all cholera cases fected, allowing John Snow to complete admitted to the 6 hospitals in Baghdad dur- his studies of the relationship of the disease ing the epidemic of 1999 in Iraq. (who.int)
  • Tightening up of the preventive measures continuously needs to be adapted in order to eradicate the coronavirus epidemic from the population. (who.int)
  • Pain Killer is the shocking account of the origins of today's opioid epidemic, the creators of this plague, and the way to help stop it. (eagleharborbooks.com)
  • Katoch and Sidhu (2021) predicted the spread and the final size of the COVID-19 epidemic in India using the ARIMA model. (who.int)
  • Barry Meier, author of Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic, was a member of the New York Times reporting team that won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. (wgbh.org)
  • In 2017, 47,173 Americans killed themselves. (commondreams.org)
  • Epidemic resurgence of Chikungunya virus in democratic Republic of the Congo: identification of a new central African strain. (ajtmh.org)
  • The ongoing resurgence of Aedes aegypti in the Americas-- abetted by poor mosquito control, urbanization, and increased air travel--has led to dengue hyperendemicity, more frequent dengue epidemics, and the emergence of dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF). (cdc.gov)
  • The American Opioid Epidemic: From Patient Care to Public Health provides an in-depth look at clinical and public health approaches to this epidemic from both psychiatric and medical perspectives and gives mental health professionals the big picture necessary to understand the epidemic, as well as the clinical detail required to help patients avoid or overcome opioid addition. (appi.org)
  • There is an epidemic in America, but it's not an epidemic of psychiatric disorders-it's an epidemic of over-diagnosis that's making billions for pharmaceutical companies and the doctors prescribing these drugs. (cchrint.org)
  • Interwoven with Whitaker's groundbreaking analysis of the merits of psychiatric medications are the personal stories of children and adults swept up in this epidemic. (semcoop.com)
  • Lucid, pointed and important, Anatomy of an Epidemic should be required reading for anyone considering extended use of psychiatric medicine. (semcoop.com)
  • His book, Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America (Crown Publishers, 2010), begins with these data points: in 1987, the U.S. mental illness disability rate was 1 in every 184 Americans, but by 2007 the mental illness disability rate had more than doubled to 1 in every 76 Americans. (mindfreedom.org)
  • The findings were presented at the American Psychiatric Association (APA) 2022 Annual Meeting. (medscape.com)
  • Clinicians in private practice and Ryan White Funded clinics typically view their community as better off in terms of their management of the local epidemic than those in Hospitals and Health Center settings. (aahivm.org)
  • RÉSUMÉ Une épidémie de choléra en Iraq a été anticipée pour l'année 1999 et un plan a été établi pour la notification et le traitement des cas de diarrhée. (who.int)
  • Le pic d'incidence des cas (juin 1999) est survenu plus tôt que lors des épidémies précédentes, aucun cas n'ayant été enregistré en novembre/décembre 1999. (who.int)
  • Humans was no official announcement of another are the reservoir of the disease, despite iso- epidemic until the year 1999. (who.int)
  • We'll examine the origins of the worst public health crisis of the twenty-first century and expose the role pharmaceutical companies played in pushing addictive opioids into the American market. (wgbh.org)
  • Coupled with the changing nature of the financial risk Americans face when saving for retirement as well as the recent financial crisis, economic insecurity may weigh heavily on U.S. workers, and take a toll on their health and health-related behaviors. (princeton.edu)
  • Race and ethnicity are also factors: African Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans, Native Americans, and some Asian Americans are at higher risk for type 2 diabetes. (medlineplus.gov)
  • When Mexico signed on to become a participant in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in the early 1990s, the country's leaders thought they were getting unprecedented access to the vast U.S. marketplace. (naturalnews.com)
  • The opioid epidemic began in the late 1990s when the pharmaceutical and health care industries started marketing and prescribing highly addictive painkillers far more aggressively. (northernpublicradio.org)
  • Case-fatality rates associated with early DHF epidemics were as high as 30-40%, and in Southeast Asian countries where the disease has become endemic it is one of the leading causes of hospitalization and death among children (4). (cdc.gov)
  • But Americans aren't feeling much oneness these days, and many tell pollsters they suffer loneliness, social isolation and little connection with others. (wordandway.org)
  • Almost 40 percent of American adults and nearly 20 percent of adolescents are obese - the highest rates ever recorded for the U.S. (today.com)
  • Since lockdowns and stay-at-home orders were instated, roughly a third of American adults report feeling lonelier than usual, according to an April survey by social-advice company SocialPro. (time.com)
  • An estimated 88 million American adults have prediabetes. (medlineplus.gov)
  • During the American Revolution a smallpox outbreak threatened to wipe out the Continental Army as it had thousands of Native Americans. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • Parents who intentionally failed to vaccinate their 7-year-old son are responsible for a 2008 mini-epidemic of measles in San Diego, and the city should bill them the $125,000 it spent containing the outbreak, an obstetrician-gynecologist argues in a recent blog post for KevinMd.com . (acsh.org)
  • However, thanks to preparedness and sensitization which led to early detection of the disease, the EVD epidemic was successfully controlled in subsequently affected countries, namely: Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo where the outbreak was unrelated to the West African epidemic. (who.int)
  • As my community and I struggle to make sense of this recent murder, I cannot help but think of the structures of racism and violence in America and how they perpetuate police brutality against Black Americans. (commondreams.org)
  • As a national community, we have to demand justice for Michael Brown and all others killed by or suffering from structural violence and its perpetuation of police brutality in America. (commondreams.org)
  • Indeed, we see in Latin America and the Caribbean that violence has become a mechanism to adapt to these tensions and to process conflict. (ipsnews.net)
  • There's a masculinity epidemic in the United States, and we're seeing that time and again in these shootings," said Sarah Prior, a sociology professor at Michigan State University whose research focuses on gendered violence. (thetruthaboutguns.com)
  • This epidemic of violence that disproportionately targets transgender people of colour - particularly Black trans women - must cease. (gaysonoma.com)
  • The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through CDC, has awarded $13.5 million to conduct state and local planning and kick off community involvement for the proposed federal initiative, Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Plan for America external icon , which seeks to reduce new HIV infections in America by 90% by 2030. (cdc.gov)
  • For decades, local community plans have been pivotal to HIV prevention, treatment, and care," said HHS Assistant Secretary for Health, ADM Brett P. Giroir, M.D. "And locally designed plans in each jurisdiction are also essential to the success of the Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative. (cdc.gov)
  • The survey participants - made up of AAHIVM members and HIV credentialed providers - reside in the 50 counties, urban jurisdictions and seven rural states identified as initial geographic targets within the Trump Administration's Ending the Epidemic (EtE) initiative. (aahivm.org)
  • Our nation has been hit by an epidemic of disabling mental illness, and yet, as Anatomy of an Epidemic reveals, the medical blueprints for curbing that epidemic have already been drawn up. (semcoop.com)
  • EKC is highly contagious and has a tendency to occur in epidemics. (medscape.com)
  • Repeated epidemics of dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) involving up to several million people occur annually in tropical areas of Asia, Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas and may extend into temperate areas inhabited by the Aedes aegypti mosquito vector (3). (cdc.gov)
  • The result has been repeated introduction of dengue virus into areas well-suited to dengue transmission, a circumstance virtually guaranteeing that epidemics of dengue and perhaps DHF/DSS will occur frequently in the Americas (5,6). (cdc.gov)
  • This turnaround in mortality reverses decades of progress, the researchers write, and the same pattern is not seen in other rich countries, nor is it seen among African Americans or Hispanics in the United States. (princeton.edu)
  • Between 1978 and 1998, the mortality rate for white, middle-aged (ages 45 to 54) Americans declined by 2 percent a year on average, which matched the mortality declines observed in other rich countries, including France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Sweden. (princeton.edu)
  • For non-Hispanic African-Americans and Hispanics in the U.S., mortality rates declined at 2.6 and 1.8 percent per year respectively. (princeton.edu)
  • U nderstanding what mortality in America looks like today now means zooming in on what's happening in different regions. (vox.com)
  • The National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors (NASTAD) has been awarded $1.5 million per year from 2019 to 2023, based on the availability of resources, to enhance local health departments' capacity to end the epidemic in the 57 geographic areas. (cdc.gov)
  • Over the past 15 years epidemics caused by all four dengue virus serotypes have occurred with increasing frequency in the Caribbean Basin. (cdc.gov)
  • Why Is America's Suicide Epidemic Hitting Trump's Base So Hard? (commondreams.org)
  • In that single year, in other words, the suicide count was nearly seven times greater than the number of American soldiers killed in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars between 2001 and 2018. (commondreams.org)
  • Still, to grasp how serious the suicide epidemic has become, numbers are a necessity. (commondreams.org)
  • For decades, experts have warned that older Americans are taking too many unnecessary drugs, often prescribed by multiple doctors, for dubious or unknown reasons. (news-medical.net)
  • In Pain Killer, Barry Meier breaks new ground in his decades-long investigation into the opioid epidemic. (eagleharborbooks.com)
  • In spite of the obvious and rationally undeniable tyranny that is verifiably present at all levels of our government, the majority of the US population still enthusiastically embrace the false narrative of American exceptionalism . (geoengineeringwatch.org)
  • American exceptionalism is a white exceptionalism that portrays the U.S. as a society rooted in democracy rather than slavery, liberty rather than brutality and genocide. (blackagendareport.com)
  • The ideology of American exceptionalism has become a sinister weapon in the arsenal of U.S. imperialism. (blackagendareport.com)
  • American Exceptionalism and American Innocence debunks the myriad of myths that are told to us to protect the rule of the rich in the United States. (blackagendareport.com)
  • The current U.S.-led war campaign seeking to overthrow Venezuela's Bolivarian revolution has benefitted greatly from the propagation of fake news cloaked in the mythology of American exceptionalism. (blackagendareport.com)
  • American exceptionalism and fake news are interrelated. (blackagendareport.com)
  • The increased availability of such powerful drugs has led to widespread abuse - according to the 2009 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, more than 5 million Americans misused opioid painkillers in the past month. (cdc.gov)
  • It's official: Prince died of an overdose from opioid painkillers, becoming the latest high-profile victim of America's opioid epidemic . (vox.com)
  • These local plans will be unique to each area because the HIV epidemic affects communities differently. (cdc.gov)
  • Liu, who moderated a press briefing highlighting the study, noted every state is affected differently by the opioid epidemic but the shortage of appropriate treatments for OUD is nationwide. (medscape.com)
  • An epidemic of virus disease in Southern Province, Tanganyika Territory, in 1952-53. (ajtmh.org)
  • It is an enzymatic pro- ued to appear in several epidemic forms cess causing a brief, acute onset diarrhoeal during the years 1871, 1889, 1894, 1899 illness, with recurrent vomiting and stools and 1917 [ 15 ], after which the disease that resemble rice water. (who.int)
  • Lack of effective mosquito control and increasing urbanization in most parts of tropical America have placed extensive vector mosquito infestations in close contact with large human populations, providing ideal conditions for mosquito-borne disease transmission. (cdc.gov)
  • At Digestive Disease Week 2015, an American Gastroenterological Association Translational Symposium focused on several advances in pediatric hepatology. (medscape.com)
  • The American Opioid Epidemic: From Patient Care to Public Health provides practicing psychiatrists, trainees, and other mental health professionals with the latest information on opioid addiction, including misuse of heroin and other illicit opioids, the role of prescription analgesic opioids, and recent overdose trends. (appi.org)
  • A thorough overview of prescription opioids is presented, including descriptions of the agents and their physiological effects, details on the origins of the opioid prescription use and misuse epidemic, current national trends in the nonmedical use of these prescription medications, and the consequences of long-term use of prescription opioids, such as the risk of initiating use of heroin and other illegal opioids. (appi.org)
  • According to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey , one in five Americans has a family member who's addicted to prescription painkillers, and more than four in 10 Americans personally know someone who's addicted. (vox.com)
  • To aid in managing and reducing the opioid epidemic, the American Nurses Association (ANA) has created a series of helpful resources outlining best practices, a more general overview of the role of ineffective pain management in fueling the opioid epidemic, and proposals for how the situation can be improved on a national level. (nursingworld.org)
  • But organizations such as the ENA and the American Nurses Association as well as government agencies involved in occupational safety say this doesn't have to be the case. (scientificamerican.com)
  • The social determinants of the opioid epidemic are addressed from historical, demographic, and socioeconomic perspectives, as well as the pharmaceutical marketing-related, regulatory, and governmental policy-oriented factors that shape health disparities around opioid addiction and its consequences. (appi.org)
  • And now with the opioid epidemic, we're faced with the consequences of dismissing addiction for such a long time. (medscape.com)
  • For the 35.7 million Americans who live alone, that means no meaningful social contact at all, potentially for months on end. (time.com)
  • We also look forward to sharing this data with the members of the Administration in hopes of providing insights that can lead to meaningful steps in ending the epidemic. (aahivm.org)
  • Death rates among middle-aged white non-Hispanic Americans began to rise at a steady clip of half a percent per year. (princeton.edu)
  • In recent years, the rise of criminal cartels in Mexico and the newly aggressive posture of state authorities have made it much more difficult to reach the U.S. Beginning in 2014, at the urging of the Obama Administration, Mexican authorities increased their apprehension rate of Central Americans by eighty-five per cent. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • Nevertheless, the number of Central Americans coming to the U.S. has continued to rise, as has the pace of apprehensions: of the more than three hundred Guatemalans who leave for the U.S. each day, two-thirds are arrested and deported by Mexican and American immigration agents. (pulitzercenter.org)
  • For health professionals, policymakers and legislators, addressing this problem is complicated-while they push for education, prevention, and enforcement to reverse this epidemic, they must also ensure that patients with a legitimate need for these medications still have access to them. (cdc.gov)
  • An April 2013 report prepared by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement found that killings of Black Americans by 'law enforcement, security guards and stand-your-ground vigilantes' have increased from one every 36 hours, in the first half of 2012, to one every 28 hours by the end of that year. (commondreams.org)
  • NAFLD is most commonly noted in males, especially those of Hispanic and Native American descent. (medscape.com)
  • The place: young America from Baltimore to Boston but especially in Philadelphia, the nation's largest city and seat of the federal government. (rowman.com)
  • 47,055 people, or the equivalent of about 125 Americans every day. (iwf.org)
  • In other words, there are many people who profit from the idea that a staggering proportion of Americans are mentally ill, and these groups are powerful, well organized, and politically effective. (cchrint.org)
  • In urban jurisdictions where there is an historical HIV epidemic, clinicians believe their community is faring better across the HIV care continuum, there are more providers available to treat people with HIV and provide PrEP, and there are fewer barriers to care. (aahivm.org)
  • This problem has gotten worse because the average American is on a lot more medications than 15 years ago," said cardiologist Rita Redberg, a professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco. (news-medical.net)
  • The US opioid epidemic claims thousands of lives every year and there's evidence it's getting worse, said Hu. (medscape.com)
  • He "prevented a disastrous epidemic among the Continental troops," historian Ann Becker says. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • The American Academy of HIV Medicine (AAHIVM), today, highlighted critical barriers to ending the HIV epidemic as identified by HIV care providers in the hardest hit areas of the country. (aahivm.org)
  • As the epidemic spread, however, thousands-including many soldiers-died. (nationalgeographic.com)
  • He takes readers inside Purdue to show how long the company withheld information about the abuse of OxyContin and gives a shocking account of the Justice Department's failure to alter the trajectory of the opioid epidemic and protect thousands of lives. (eagleharborbooks.com)