Minutes count when a patient with a stroke arrives at a hospital emergency room. Doctors stand ready to treat the patient, but whether medication can dissolve the blood clot depends on what the patient is already taking. ...
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Matthew Holbreich was a senior in college when the swelling started. He originally thought he had injured his left leg playing squash, but the intensity of the swelling scared him. After seeing a few doctors in Boston, where ...
Sep 30, 2026
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A powerful veterinary sedative, medetomidine, is increasingly appearing in street supplies of the already deadly opioid fentanyl, and the number of patients suffering from medetomidine withdrawal has quadrupled in recent ...
Sep 29, 2026
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Scientists have successfully used a drug to prolong the lifespan of several species of animals, in some cases by more than 25%. The study, published in Aging Cell, found strong evidence that activating a protein that governs ...
Sep 30, 2026
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The number of people using GLP-1 treatments like Ozempic and Wegovy for weight loss or chronic conditions has increased rapidly, with more than 1 in 10 U.S. adults currently taking such medications. A new study led by medical ...
Sep 28, 2026
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When a patient arrives at the hospital with an acetaminophen overdose, it's often a race against the clock. The only FDA-approved antidote for overdose-related liver injury, N‑acetylcysteine, must be administered within hours ...
Sep 28, 2026
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University of South Florida researchers have discovered a previously unknown vulnerability in Plasmodium vivax (P. vivax), a malaria parasite that infects millions of people in Central and South America and Southeast Asia.
Sep 24, 2026
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A research team from the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacy at the LKS Faculty of Medicine, the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed), has found that long-acting injectable (LAI) antipsychotics provide better treatment outcomes ...
Sep 24, 2026
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Interleukin-6 (IL-6) is a contradictory molecule in immunology. It helps the liver regenerate after injury and protects against infections, yet it also drives chronic inflammation in rheumatic diseases, inflammatory bowel ...
Sep 25, 2026
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Patients with early symptoms of Alzheimer's disease may be prescribed anti-amyloid therapy, which can help clear the sticky clumps of amyloid protein in the brain that characterize Alzheimer's. While these treatments cannot ...
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