A recent report released by the United States Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals 25 percent of all overdoses come from heroin. In 2015 one in four drug overdoses was related to heroin where as in 1999 it was just limited to 6 percent. In the overall deaths […]

A new data from CDC reveals 25 percent elderly Americans do not engage themselves enough in physical activity and they are at risk of developing heart disease. In one of the earlier studies it was revealed spending too much time in lying down or sitting may result with negative implications […]

The US Centers for Disease and Prevention (CDC) has come up with a new report revealing the top ten death causes in the United States along with other related vital information. In the report the CDC mentions a total of 2,626,418 deaths were recorded and pre-adjusted death rate decreased 1 […]

World Health Organization (WHO) has lately suggested women to delay pregnancy who are living in areas where the Zika virus is active. This will help in avoiding having babies with birth defects. Zika transmission is either occurring or being expected in the Caribbean region and in 46 countries across Latin […]

Suicides in the United States are on the rise. In 2009 10.5 people took their own lives out of every 100,000. This increased to 13 people in 2014, reveals a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The researchers found suicide rate increase year-after-year between 1999 and […]

World Health Organization (WHO) declares after Monday’s emergency meeting of independent experts the Zika virus outbreak is a global emergency even without getting a definitive evidence it is causing a surge in babies born with brain defects in Brazil. The UN agency called the outbreak as an extraordinary event posing […]