The Hill Stories
- Preventing suicide is necessary to improve public health, but how do we do it?
- Hands-free Bluetooth devices are still a distraction for most drivers.
- States that implement prescription monitoring programs see dramatic reductions in the number of doctors writing unnecessary painkiller prescriptions.
- Patients given the drug had a statistically significant reduction in blood pressure, Allergan said.
- Have Florida's initiatives against opioid abuse worked?
- The United States moved on Wednesday to cut the amount of salt in packaged and restaurant food in a bid to reduce the number of heart attacks and strokes linked to consuming too much sodium.
- Policymakers and health leaders are more focused on the issue, but there's still a lot that has to be done.
- Doctors, who will start screening transplant waiting lists next week, are anxious to move forward.
- The widespread Zika virus outbreak in Brazil does not pose enough of a threat to warrant canceling or putting off the Olympic Games.
- A preliminary review by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration questioned whether Sanofi SA's experimental diabetes drug lixisenatide contributed any benefit.
- World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said the Ebola crisis was "a wake-up call to the world."
- States with higher rates of gun ownership also have higher rates of suicide by firearm.