Creating intentional connections, like the one Sandy did when she visited with her friends, is the biggest step toward lessening feelings of loneliness. Ramos, the Associate Professor in Psychiatry ...

(CNN) — As US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy nears the end of his second term as the nation’s doctor, a final diagnosis of his patient suggests that a great deficiency of connectivity has ...

Dr. Vivek Murthy served two terms as U.S. Surgeon General—first under former President Obama, then under President Biden. During his tenure, Murthy was a calm and reassuring voice during COVID ...

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy on Tuesday released his penned parting prescription to the country preparing his exit as the nation's top doctor. As he closes out his term, Murthy is urging ...

"This is my parting prescription for the country I love," U.S. Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy writes in a letter shared exclusively with PEOPLE My father told me he never felt emptiness — that ...

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy in an advisory on Friday (January 3, 2025), noted that the consumption of alcohol increases the risk of developing breast, colon, liver and other cancers.

I've come to know Dr. Vivek Murthy, the U.S. surgeon general, in recent years as he released one mental health oriented advisory after another, focusing on loneliness, opioid overdose prevention ...

Violet Miller/Sun-Times Share Late last week, as New Year’s Eve hangovers were wearing off and Dry January participants ordered mocktails, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy sounded the alarm ...

On Friday, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy called for updating the existing surgeon general’s health warning label on alcohol-containing beverages to include the risk of cancer.

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy has been sounding the alarm on the loneliness epidemic for more than a year. In his 2023 report "Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation," Murthy wrote that ...