1 day ago Joanna Morris,BBC News, North East and Cumbria Middlesbrough Council Nitazenes, which are more potent than heroin, have been found in illegal vapes used by children A child has been treated for an opiate overdose after using a “potentially fatal” black market vape, health officials have said. Vapes laced with illegal drugs like … Read more
April 18, 2022 Three young children in Virginia were hospitalized after eating Goldfish crackers laced with THC, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana that makes people high. The children, all 1-year-old, were taken to the local hospital on March 2 because of their glassy, bloodshot eyes and lethargic, uncoordinated behavior, the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office said … Read more
By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, April 12, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Even as the COVID-19 pandemic kept people isolated at home, sexually transmitted disease (STDs) cases increased across the United States. Although cases fell in the pandemic’s early months, infections rose again by the end of 2020, with gonorrhea, syphilis and congenital syphilis surpassing … Read more
March 22, 2022 — The number of Americans who died from alcohol-related causes increased dramatically during the first year of the pandemic, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Alcohol-related deaths rose above 99,000 in 2020 — a 25% increase from the nearly 79,000 deaths documented in 2019. … Read more
May 26, 2021 — Move over, Netflix. You’re not the only video streaming outfit to benefit from the COVID-19 lockdown. In findings likely to surprise no one, new research shows Americans’ pornography usage spiked dramatically in the early months of the pandemic, as stay-at-home orders limited other types of … outlets. But the … Read more
Image caption Corby currently has the fifth highest level of new Covid-19 cases in England per 100,000 residents Corby has risen up the rankings of English towns and cities for new coronavirus cases, with many found in younger people. Why has the Northamptonshire town become a hotspot? What do we know about the Corby outbreak? … Read more