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Price and convenience can drive consumers to purchase cannabis from illegal, rather than legal, sources
Despite the legalization of cannabis sales in Canada and many U.S. states, an illegal market still exists. A new study in the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs suggests that higher prices and inconvenience associated ...
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Medicine for inflammatory bowel disease may protect against severe COVID-19
Getting the COVID-19 vaccination strengthened one type of immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients even though they were taking immunosuppressant medication, according to investigators ...
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Can medications for excessive alcohol use help prevent and treat alcohol-related liver disease?
Excessive alcohol consumption can harm the liver, causing a range of conditions from relatively minor liver damage to serious problems such as cirrhosis and liver cancer—all of which fall under the umbrella of alcohol-associated ...
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Gabapentin may boost functional recovery after a stroke
The drug gabapentin, currently prescribed to control seizures and reduce nerve pain, may enhance recovery of movement after a stroke by helping neurons on the undamaged side of the brain take up the signaling work of lost ...
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New research may explain unexpected effects of common painkillers
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen and aspirin are widely used to treat pain and inflammation. But even at similar doses, different NSAIDs can have unexpected and unexplained effects on many ...
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Stopping C9orf72-linked dementia in mutant mice with antibiotic rifampicin
What did Stephen Hawking and Mao Zedong have in common? They both suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), for which a cure remains elusive. Scientists from Osaka Metropolitan University took an important step toward ...
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Gabapentin may cut opioid needs for oral mucositis pain during radiotherapy
For patients receiving concurrent chemoradiotherapy for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck, higher doses of gabapentin are well tolerated and associated with delayed time to first opioid use for additional pain ...
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Gout medicine may also help fight heart failure
The anti-inflammatory benefits of a common gout medicine may help save the lives of heart failure patients, researchers say.
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Novel preclinical drug could have potential to combat depression, brain injury and cognitive disorders
James Bibb, Ph.D., and colleagues have described a novel preclinical drug that could have the potential to combat depression, brain injury and diseases that impair cognition. The drug, which notably is brain-permeable, acts ...
May 20, 2022
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Medicinal cannabis shown to reduce pain and need for opiate painkillers among cancer patients
A comprehensive assessment of the benefits of medical cannabis for cancer-related pain found that for most oncology patients, pain measures improved significantly, other cancer-related symptoms also decreased, the consumption ...
May 20, 2022
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Study shows that VEGF-A can increase expression of dopamine D2 receptors on endothelial cells
Researchers have identified a new molecular drug target that could result in new cancer drugs with fewer side effects.
May 20, 2022
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Higher dose of melatonin improved sleep in older adults
In a small study of healthy adults aged 55 and older, 5 mg of melatonin increased total sleep time compared to a placebo.
May 19, 2022
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Repurposed antibiotic may be an effective therapeutic in COVID-19–infected mice
Repurposed drugs may have a speedier path to clinical use because they have already been shown to be safe in people. A study publishing May 19 in the open access journal PLOS Pathogens by Sandrine Belouzard and Jean Dubuisson ...
May 19, 2022
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Anti-parasitic drug prevents bacterial complications of scabies on mass scale
An anti-parasitic drug, delivered on a mass scale, can prevent potentially dangerous bacterial complications of scabies in Fiji, according to a new study.
May 18, 2022
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Reasons for occurrence of multi-drug resistance during tumor therapy
Researchers from the Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Technology (SIBEBT) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have revealed the reasons for the inevitable occurrence of multidrug resistance during tumor ...
May 18, 2022
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Imatinib shows improved outcomes for patients with severe COVID-19 in the CounterCOVID clinical trial
Patients with severe COVID-19 who were given imatinib had lower mortality rates at 90-day follow-up, according to research published at the ATS 2022 international conference.
May 18, 2022
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In STOP-COVID19 trial, brensocatib did not improve condition of patients with severe COVID-19
Brensocatib did not improve the clinical status of patients hospitalized with severe SARS-CoV-2 infection in the double-blind randomized, placebo-controlled STOP-COVID19 multicenter clinical trial, according to research published ...
May 18, 2022
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Pfizer Covid pill preventing hospitalizations and deaths: White House
Pfizer's anti-COVID pill Paxlovid is helping stave off hospitalizations and deaths amid the United States' latest wave of infections, a senior White House official said Wednesday.
May 18, 2022
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Increased flexibility seen in preapproval evidence for new drugs
The characteristics of acceptable preapproval evidence were more flexible for novel drugs approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2020, according to a research letter published online May 17 in JAMA Network Open.
May 18, 2022
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Avacopan reduces need for glucocorticoids, respiratory and ENT involvement for vasculitis patients
Avacopan was better than prednisone in reducing respiratory as well as ear, nose and throat (ENT) involvement in ANCA-associated vasculitis patients participating in the phase 3 ADVOCATE trial, and enabled reduced glucocorticoid ...
May 18, 2022
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