Emergency

Cannabis-involved emergency department visits among children, teens and young adults in the United States increased during the COVID-19 pandemic, a study published in MMWR found.

States with abortion restrictions had a greater number of internet searches containing keywords related to self-managed abortions compared with states without restrictions, according to a research letter published in JAMA Surgery.

During its House of Delegates meeting, the AMA adopted a policy recognizing that children’s mental health and barriers to care in the United States represent a national emergency.

The number of emergency department visits for unsupervised pediatric medication exposures decreased by nearly half between 2009 and 2020, CDC researchers reported in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

The AAP said adding around-the-clock pharmacies to hospital emergency departments in the United States could alleviate challenges to getting prescriptions filled immediately.

WHO this week ended the public health emergency of international concern declared last year for the global mpox outbreak.

WHO said Friday that the COVID-19 pandemic no longer constitutes a global public health emergency of international concern, citing reduced risks to human health driven by high population-level immunity and vaccination.

SAN DIEGO — Responding to in-flight emergencies can be intimidating, but internists can prepare for that scenario by considering the types of medical problems that most often occur on board and what resources are available to them.

In the early months of 2020, amid a rapidly worsening pandemic, the U.S. government declared public health and national emergencies to help the country respond to COVID-19.

This year, the theme of World Kidney Day is kidney health for all, and that the best way to support patients is to prepare for the unexpected.