With cancer rates rising throughout sub-Saharan Africa—home to 1.1 billion people, or about 14% of the world's population—researchers with the Botswana-Rutgers Partnership for Health are seeking solutions.
Jul 18, 2023
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Depression has been on the rise in recent years. According to a study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, nearly one in 10 adults and one in five adolescents reported having depression in 2020, up from 6.6% of ...
Jul 17, 2023
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The most effective science-based treatment for opioid use disorder is medication. Methadone and buprenorphine prevent intense cravings and other symptoms of withdrawal, while naltrexone works by blocking the effects of opioids.
Jul 14, 2023
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Online cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) shows promising effects on quality of life, as well as reduced health care consumption for patients with paroxysmal (i.e., intermittent) symptomatic atrial fibrillation, according ...
Jul 13, 2023
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If you believe a medical treatment was developed specifically for you, it may be more effective, especially if you want to be seen as unique, according to new research from McGill University.
Jul 13, 2023
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The way the brain regulates pupil size is different from previously thought: fundamentally responsible is the neurotransmitter orexin, as researchers at ETH Zurich have now shown. This discovery could well alter our understanding ...
Jul 13, 2023
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The mixture of honey and vinegar, also known as oxymel, has been used as a medical treatment throughout history and now scientists have established that this combination could have modern applications in the treatment of ...
Jul 13, 2023
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The first large-scale U.S. clinical trial of cytisinicline, led by a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigator, found the smoking cessation medication to be effective and well tolerated in adults who wished to break ...
Jul 13, 2023
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Fifty percent of patients with metastatic prostate cancer experience some level of financial hardship due to their treatment, according to a study in the August issue of The Journal of Urology, an Official Journal of the ...
Jul 7, 2023
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In a world-first clinical trial published in the journal Nature Medicine, a multi-center study from Lawson Health Research Institute, the Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM) and the Jewish General Hospital ...
Jul 7, 2023
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