Leading risk factors that contribute to suicide and suicidal thoughts are now part of employees’ everyday life—prolonged isolation, feelings of hopelessness, financial loss, and stress from prejudice ...

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of global mortality resulting in nearly 17.5 million deaths worldwide in 2005. Whereas the causes of this epidemic involve the same risk factors, the ...

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a common, frequently chronic, and disabling condition which, along with acute stress disorder (ASD), is categorized as a trauma- and stressor-related disorder ...

For the past few years, a small team of health scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been tasked with answering basic statistical questions like: Who is drowning? Where is ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will be able to fully fund the Overdose Data to Action, or OD2A, program ahead of a key budget deadline, according to a CDC senior leader. A second CDC ...

Correspondence to Dr Oluwatoyosi B A Owoeye, Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, USA; olu.owoeye{at}health.slu.edu The challenge of reducing the ...