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Economists push back estimated recession date: NABE
Dive Brief: Economists pushed back their forecast for the start date of a U.S. recession, with 28% predicting that a downturn will begin before April and 33% expecting a slump to start during the second quarter, the National Association for Business Economics found in a survey this month. In a December NABE survey, 52% of
March 3, 2023
Estimated 2.6 million Americans prescribed opioids also on various other sedatives
Credit: CC0 Public Domain As many as 2.6 million Americans—equivalent to 1 percent of all US adults —prescribed opioids are also taking various other sedatives, including benzodiazepines plus another type of sedative drug, estimates research published online in the journal Regional Anesthesia & Pain Medicine. This type of polypharmacy could be dangerous, warn the researchers,…
February 22, 2022
Estimated 300,000 people in UK have potentially fatal heart valve disease
Credit: CC0 Public Domain An estimated 300,000 people in the UK have aortic valve stenosis, a progressive and potentially fatal condition, suggests research published in the open access journal Open Heart. The UK health service will struggle to cope with the sheer number of people needing treatment for this over the next few years, with…
January 25, 2022