by Monty Self | Apr 17, 2020 | Opinion
A family member sent me a picture from the grocery store in which two-thirds of the shoppers were wearing some kind of face masks. There were some homemade masks, along with traditional surgical masks and a few N-95 respirators. A mask-covered face has quickly become...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Mar 5, 2020 | News
Nearly half (42.8%) of U.S. adults were obese in 2017-18, according to a U.S. Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention report published Feb. 27. Obesity data is calculated with the body mass index (BMI), which uses a person’s height and weight to determine whether...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Oct 30, 2019 | News
The suicide rate in the U.S. has been increasing for a decade and rising sharply among children aged 10-14, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report published Oct. 17. From 2007 to 2017, the U.S. suicide rate (the number of persons per 100,000...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Jan 10, 2019 | News
More than two-thirds (67.8 percent) of all drug-related overdose deaths in 2017 involved opioids, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report released Dec. 21. Illicitly manufactured fentanyl (IMF) – a synthetic opioid used for pain that the...
by EthicsDaily.com Staff | Sep 25, 2018 | News
U.S. obesity rates have more than tripled over the last 40 years among those aged 19 and younger, according to Centers for Disease Control (CDC) data released Sept. 5. Those 19 and younger saw the percentage of obesity rise from 5.2 percent to 18.5 percent, from...
