Medical research
Women are 50–75% more likely to have adverse drug reactions—a new mouse study finally helps explain why
Compared to men, we know much less about how women experience disease.
Dec 12, 2022
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News tagged with drug prescriptions
Addiction
New England college town wastewater reveals high usage of stimulants and a rise in drug use during the pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic helped legitimize Wastewater-based Epidemiology (WBE) as a less invasive, cost-efficient way to monitor public health. WBE allows scientists to detect concentrations of drugs or biomarkers in sewage, ...
Dec 6, 2022
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Medications
'Unbelievable good price': This pharmacy dispenses bargain medicine—and hope
As disease raced through her body, Ruby suffered unrelenting pain for years.
Dec 5, 2022
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Addiction
Opioid-involved car crashes decrease following efforts to curb use
People taking prescription opioids are more than twice as likely to be involved in a car accident than those who aren't, research has shown. In fact, between the early 1990s and early 2010s, as opioid use rose sharply in ...
Dec 2, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Q and A: Shingles: Not just a band of blisters
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: A friend recently went through a bout of shingles. I really don't know much about this condition, but I know it was painful. How do you get it? Is there a treatment or vaccine for it?
Nov 29, 2022
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Medications
Using an online pharmacy to buy meds? It's buyer beware, FDA says
It might be tempting to buy prescription medication online, but buyers should beware, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns.
Nov 18, 2022
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Medications
Diabetics scramble to find drugs suddenly popular for a non-intended use: Weight loss
Florida diabetics are struggling to buy prescription drugs to help control their blood sugar now that the medications have gone viral on social media as a weight-loss solution.
Nov 18, 2022
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Addiction
Walmart offers $3 billion to settle opioid lawsuits
Another major pharmacy chain has offered billions to settle claims for its role in the opioid epidemic.
Nov 15, 2022
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Medications
Researcher's decade of analyzing the price of drugs leads to big reforms
For nearly 10 years, Stacie Dusetzina, Ph.D., a Vanderbilt University professor of Health Policy and Ingram Professor of Cancer Research, has focused her research on one core policy issue that has been of interest to lawmakers ...
Nov 3, 2022
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Medications
Biden pushing lower prescription drug costs in midterm press
President Joe Biden is highlighting his administration's efforts to lower prescription drug costs on Friday as part of his three-state Western tour this week, as he confronts a sobering inflation report in the waning weeks ...
Oct 14, 2022
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