Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

A study found that adolescents who use e-cigarettes are over three times more likely to use cannabis than those who don’t. "E-cigarette use among cannabis-naive adolescents was associated with an increased likelihood of both self-reported past 12-month and past 30-day cannabis use 1 year...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently released its Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report revealing that the most common substances for which adult Americans have sought substance misuse treatment in 2019 were alcohol, cannabis, and a combination of...

As more and more states embrace the cannabis plant in its “full form,” some still challenge the legality of hemp-based products. Cannabis company Hometown Hero filed a suit against the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) last week claiming that its hemp...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention adopted the recommendation of a federal advisory committee that said the Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) - BioNTech SE’s (NASDAQ: BNTX) COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective for adolescents ages 12-15, opening the...

The following post was written and/or published as a collaboration between Benzinga’s in-house sponsored content team and a financial partner of Benzinga. As the summer of 2020 unfolds on an America taking its first emergent steps out of a global pandemic, business owners are looking at...

Here's the message from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to truck drivers servicing New York City: stay in your cab but no need to self-quarantine after leaving Gotham. The CDC and the White House earlier this week said anybody leaving New York City should self-quarantine for...

Americans are having the lowest number of babies in decades. The 3.7 million babies born in 2018 put the country’s birth rate at its lowest level since the 1980s, after the number of births dropped 2 percent in 2018 from the year before, according to a new report from the Centers...

Paratek Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: PRTK) shares reacted positively following the announcement of a Food and Drug Administration's approved treatment. What To Know The company announced FDA approval of Nuzyra, for the treatment of community-acquired bacterial pneumonia (CABP), as well as...

The Food and Drug Administration is eyeing the creation of a regulatory framework for e-cigarettes, a product that government data shows is increasingly popular with teenagers — and tobacco stocks are reacting to the downside.  The FDA started the largest-ever tobacco compliance...

Shares of Accelerate Diagnostics Inc (NASDAQ: AXDX), an in-vitro diagnostics company, spiked higher by more than 15 percent early Friday morning after the company provided an update relating to its Accelerate Pheno system and Accelerate PhenoTest BC kit. Accelerate confirmed in a press release that...

The question of how much power the government should exercise to keep Americans safe is a complicated and controversial issue; one that is the root of much of the conflict arising since President Donald Trump took office two weeks ago. Trump’s travel ban on visitors from seven majority-Muslim...

On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the first case of Ebola in the U.S. The patient, whose name has not been released, began to develop symptoms on September 24 and was admitted to a Texas hospital’s isolation unit on September 28. The patient...