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Dr. Jerome Adams was confirmed as the US surgeon general this week, pledging to take on the country's opioid epidemic. Adams, who was nominated for the role by President Donald Trump, is the 20th ...

U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, MD, said Americans must change the way they discuss the opioid epidemic and addiction in a Sept. 20 report entitled, ‘Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon ...

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. — Jerome Adams has always viewed himself as a medical doctor and, essentially, apolitical. After serving as Indiana health commissioner and President Donald J. Trump’s first-term ...

Boston-based Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health will host a conversation on the opioid epidemic with U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams, MD, on Jan. 24. Dr. Adams, a board-certified ...

Former surgeon general Dr. Jerome Adams explains how a new flu variant circulating the U.S. is causing record numbers of hospitalizations on ‘Special Report.’ No small talk at the airport bar, don't ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams has resigned at the request of President Joe Biden. Adams was nominated by former President Donald Trump and sworn into the job in September 2017. ...

Dr. Jerome M. Adams: When I talk to people and they asked me about politics and mixed messages. I really try to help them understand that what many people view as politics and mixed messages comes ...

(CNN) — Jerome Adams, who served as U.S. surgeon general during President Donald Trump’s first administration, is calling for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be fired as ...