Addiction
Virtual medicine: How telehealth has improved the lives of people with substance disorders
From the driver's seat of his parked truck, Lewis recalled what it felt like to take opioids.
May 20, 2024
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News tagged with drug treatments
Oncology & Cancer
Body's 'message in a bottle' delivers targeted cancer treatment
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have succeeded in delivering targeted cancer treatment via small membrane bubbles that our cells use to communicate. A study, "Antibody-displaying extracellular vesicles for ...
May 20, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
FDA approves new drug for deadly lung cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a new drug to treat patients with an advanced form of deadly lung cancer.
May 17, 2024
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Addiction
Study uses machine learning to predict opioid use disorder treatment interruptions
University of Florida researchers have developed a system designed to identify patients at high risk of discontinuing buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder.
May 16, 2024
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Antiseizure medications can produce life-threatening reactions
Molecular tests and other screening tools can lessen the risk of potentially fatal reactions to antiseizure medications that millions of Americans take for epilepsy and other conditions, but skin rashes still require speedy ...
May 15, 2024
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Medications
Clinical trial: New drug makes exercise, everyday tasks easier for people with common heart condition
People with a common heart condition were able to use significantly more oxygen while exercising after taking an investigational drug in an international clinical trial, according to a study published today in the New England ...
May 13, 2024
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Medications
How cannabis and psilocybin might help some of the 50 million Americans who are experiencing chronic pain
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency announced in late April 2024 that it plans to ease federal restrictions on cannabis, reclassifying it from a Schedule I drug to the less restricted Schedule III, which includes drugs such ...
May 13, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Knocking out deadly brain cancer with a dual therapy
Glioblastoma is an often fatal form of brain cancer, with only 5% of patients surviving beyond five years. The cancer is difficult to treat and almost always becomes resistant to treatment. As a result, recurrence of glioblastoma ...
May 6, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Personalized mRNA vaccines: A new approach in melanoma treatment
A personalized mRNA vaccine to treat melanoma has now reached late-stage trials in the UK. This is just the latest step in improving the cure rate of cancer.
May 4, 2024
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Oncology & Cancer
Molecular testing: Pioneering precision medicine for colorectal cancer
A new perspective paper explores the current state and future directions of precision medicine in colorectal cancer (CRC). It outlines advancements in molecular testing and their implications for targeted and immunological ...
May 2, 2024
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