The prescription drug methadone is linked to over 30 percent of painkiller overdose deaths, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention Tuesday.
Jul 4, 2012
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It was like a scene in "Stranger Things."
Jul 11, 2022
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Over the past 21 years of opioid overdose deaths—from prescription drugs to heroin to synthetic and semisynthetic opioids such as fentanyl—geography has played a role in where opioid-involved overdose deaths have occurred, ...
Jul 28, 2022
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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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U.S. health regulators are telling five drugmakers to recall their versions of a widely used diabetes medication after laboratory tests found elevated levels of a contaminant linked to cancer.
May 29, 2020
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(HealthDay)—A widely used class of antibiotics has been linked to an increased risk of a potentially fatal blood vessel condition—even in younger, healthy people.
Jan 7, 2021
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(HealthDay)—The weight-loss drug Saxenda can keep extra pounds off—but combining it with exercise brings a bigger payoff, a new clinical trial finds.
May 6, 2021
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More than 20 percent of American adults took at least one drug for conditions like anxiety and depression in 2010, according to an analysis of prescription data, including more than one in four women.
Nov 16, 2011
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Ranibizumab, a prescription drug commonly used to treat age-related vision loss, also reverses vision loss caused by diabetes among Hispanic and non-Hispanic whites, according to a new study led by investigators from the ...
Feb 18, 2015
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(HealthDay)—About 15 percent of older adults use high-risk methods for obtaining prescription opioids, according to a study published online Aug. 26 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
Sep 6, 2016
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