High doses of psilocybin—the active ingredient in magic mushrooms—appears to have a similar effect on depressive symptoms as the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) drug escitalopram, suggests a systematic review ...
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New research from the University of Georgia suggests the COVID-19 pandemic may have had an unexpected side effect for postpartum women: more benzodiazepine prescriptions. The findings are published in the journal Archives ...
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In Canada, prescribing potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs)—drugs whose harms may outweigh their benefits, which may be ineffective, or for which a safer alternative exists—remains very common among the elderly. ...
Sep 10, 2024
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The ROS1 tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) taletrectinib demonstrated high overall and intracranial responses, and a favorable safety profile with low incidence of neurologic adverse events in TKI-naive and TKI-pretreated patients ...
Sep 10, 2024
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Have you ever been instructed to take your medicine with food and wondered why? Perhaps you've wondered if you really need to?
Sep 10, 2024
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A Korean study published recently suggests that people with type 2 diabetes who are prescribed a particular class of drug might be at a significantly lower risk of dementia.
Sep 4, 2024
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Immune checkpoint inhibitors are a type of cancer treatment that helps the immune system attack cancer cells more effectively. One of the key proteins involved in this process is lymphocyte activation gene-3 (LAG3), which ...
Sep 4, 2024
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While immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) can provide lifesaving treatment for patients with cancer, they have also been found to cause immune-related adverse events (irAEs)—side effects that can impact almost every organ ...
Sep 4, 2024
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A new paper published in the journal Nature Communications explores programmed cell death (PD-1) in melanoma cells and the immune system's response.
Aug 28, 2024
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New insights into the biology of kidney cancer, including those informed by scientific discoveries that earned a Nobel Prize, have led to advances in treatment and increased survival rates, according to a review by UNC Lineberger ...
Aug 28, 2024
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