Medications
Evidence clearly shows the benefits of pill testing
Evidence is growing that pill testing encourages young people to reconsider their drug use—and new forms of testing can provide even more benefits.
Jan 10, 2019
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Medications
While law makers squabble over pill testing, people should test their drugs at home
As the festival season ramps up this summer, so has the ecstasy death toll. There have now been five deaths that might have been preventable if people knew what was in the drugs they were taking.
Jan 9, 2019
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Health
Medical marketing has skyrocketed in the past two decades, while oversight remains limited
Healthcare spending in the United States is the highest in the world: totaling $3.3 trillion—or 17.8% of the GDP—in 2016. To capture market share—and to expand the market—drug companies and healthcare organizations ...
Jan 8, 2019
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Health
Here's why doctors are backing pill testing at music festivals across Australia
For many years experts in the field of drug policy in Australia have known existing policies are failing. Crude messages (calls for total abstinence: "just say no to drugs") and even cruder enforcement strategies (harsher ...
Jan 8, 2019
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Hearing loss announced by protein boom in blood
Blood levels of a special protein found only in the inner ear spike after exposure to loud noise, UConn Health researchers report. The findings point the way to blood tests that could warn people at risk of hearing loss before ...
Jan 7, 2019
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Medical research
The immune system's fountain of youth
If only we could keep our bodies young, healthy and energetic, even as we attain the wisdom of our years. New research at the Weizmann Institute of Science suggests this dream could be at least partly obtainable in the future. ...
Jan 2, 2019
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Medications
Urine drug testing may be important in early phases of addiction treatment
A new study performed by Boston Medical Center (BMC) and faculty at the Boston University School of Medicine shows that urine drug testing can be a useful tool to treat patients with opioid use disorder in a primary care ...
Dec 20, 2018
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Health
Toxic amounts of vitamin D spur dog food recall
(HealthDay)—Eight brands of dry dog food have been recalled because of potentially deadly amounts of vitamin D, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.
Dec 4, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Gene testing doesn't add much information for antidepressant or antipsychotic prescribing
Pharmacogenetic tests are marketed as an aid to psychiatrists in selecting the antidepressant or antipsychotic medication that will work best in individual patients, based on their genetic makeup. But for most patients, these ...
Nov 20, 2018
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Medical research
T-cell biofactories find, fight disease in one fell swoop
NIBIB-funded researchers have transformed T cells into drug factories engineered to find cells carrying specific diseases in the body—and then produce therapeutic proteins localized to the diseased cells.
Oct 25, 2018
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