People taking prescription opioids are more than twice as likely to be involved in a car accident than those who aren’t, research has shown. In fact, between the early 1990s and early 2010s, as opioid use rose sharply in the United States, the number of...
Black men are the most common victims of killings committed by off-duty police officers in the U.S., according to a new Yale-led study.
In an analysis of 242 incidences in which people were killed by police officers when they were off duty between 2013...
Health benefits that have resulted from reductions in fine particulate air pollution aren’t distributed equally among populations in the U.S., a new Yale-led study finds. Racial and ethnic minorities — and Black people in particular — still experience...
In cases of opioid use disorder, short-term medically managed withdrawal (commonly known as detox) and long-term rehabilitation treatments that don’t incorporate continued use of buprenorphine or methadone are no more effective at preventing overdose...
Proposed changes to the United States’ Medicare and Medicaid programs could lead to thousands of additional deaths each year, a new Yale study reveals.
Recent proposals to reduce program costs include a recommendation to raise the eligibility age for...
In December 2022, China lifted the stringent COVID-19 restrictions it had imposed early in the pandemic, and infections throughout the country rapidly increased. In response, some countries restricted travelers from China in an effort to prevent increases...