US Surgeon General VivekMurthy: Firearm Violence Is a Public Health Crisis. This Medical News article is an interview with US Surgeon General, VivekMurthy, MD, MBA, and JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, about a new advisory that declares gun violence a public health crisis.
US Surgeon General VivekMurthy: To Protect Adolescents, Social Media Needs Warning Labels. This Medical News article is an interview with US Surgeon General VivekMurthy, MD, MBA, and JAMA Editor in Chief Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, about his call for a warning label on social media platforms.
of the antivaccine movement, whose prominent members went into veritable contortions of logic and science to argue that the measles isn't serious and the story was overblown. The montage features reporters and pundits blaming the outbreak on low vaccine uptake. There's a clip in which Surgeon General Dr. VivekMurthy refers to Andrew Wakefield's long-discredited 1998 Lancet case series claiming to link the MMR
choose to stop prescribing opioids for chronic pain, as one federally qualified health center did with notable success. I could also seek out additional training to become certified to treat opioid addiction with buprenorphine.Last year, Surgeon General VivekMurthy called on every physician in the U.S. to pledge to work with him to "turn the tide" on the opioid epidemic. Writing in New York Magazine
to the required 100,000 signatures that would trigger a mandatory response from the White House, they got more and more excited. Apparently they thought that the answer would be to their liking. Why they thought that, I have no idea, but now we know the answer. The White House got Surgeon General VivekMurthy to respond personally to the petition, and I have to conclude that the Obama administration the answer they wanted; so they're throwing a fit.Oh, and thanks Obama. Really. This time I mean it. I really do think, with less than a year and a half to go in his term, Obama is no longer shy about trolling cranks.Tags Antivaccine nonsense autism complementary and alternative medicine medicine Politics antivaccine Barack Obama surgeon general vaccines VivekMurthy We The People White House complementary
in the Division of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College, and director of Cornell’s Translational Research Institute on Pain in Later Life. The following questions and answers have been edited and condensed.Terry Fulmer (TF): In his letter, Surgeon General VivekMurthy suggested that clinicians refer to the CDC Guidelines for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain. What do
of loneliness was sparse until recent decades. In the 21st century, some academics and professionals have claimed that loneliness has become an epidemic,[13] including VivekMurthy, the Surgeon General of the United States. However, this claim has been disputed, with critics arguing that loneliness has not increased, but rather only academic focus on the topic has.[14]Contents * 1 Causes * 1.1 Existential . In 2017, loneliness was labelled a growing "epidemic" by VivekMurthy, the Surgeon General of the United States. It has since been described as an epidemic thousands of times, by reporters, academics and other public officials. A 2010 systematic review and meta analyses had stated that the "modern way of life in industrialized countries" is greatly reducing the quality of social relationships, partly