Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults say they've experienced...
Recent Examples on the Web Loneliness and social isolation, US surgeon general Vivek H. Murthy, MD, declared last year, have become an epidemic. Marissa Conrad, Bon Appétit, 16 Oct. 2024 In fact, a recent advisory from the surgeon general argues that parenting is hazardous to people’s men...
that almost derailed Murthy’s confirmation as surgeon general a decade ago. Murthy became quieter on the issue of gun violence after his past statements almost cost him the job. He ended up promising the Senate that he did “not intend to use my office as surgeon general as...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults...
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What are the lifestyle issues that kill Americans? You might guess smoking, obesity, or the raging opioid epidemic, and you'd be right. But you'd also be missing a quieter but also seriously deadly health menace, according to former surgeon general Vivek H. Murthy --loneliness. ...