A wide-reaching global review has found that some of the most common pain and fever medicines might increase vulnerability to infections like COVID-19, while others may hold hope for improving our immune response.
Mar 1, 2022
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(HealthDay)—Potent and poisonous, the synthetic opioid known as fentanyl has infiltrated nearly every corner of the U.S. illegal street drug market, experts warn.
Feb 18, 2022
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"This site saves lives," reads an inscription on the wall of America's first drug injection center in New York, which aims to serve as a model in a country blighted by record overdoses.
Feb 18, 2022
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Developing new drugs is a difficult process. With the aid of artificial intelligence, Pharmaceutical scientist Xuhan Liu has developed methods that can help make drug design cheaper and faster. His Ph.D. defense is on 15 ...
Feb 9, 2022
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(HealthDay)—There are indications the U.S. Justice Department may be open to the idea of allowing safe injection sites, a year after it won a court battle against them.
Feb 8, 2022
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When you open a carton of Neapolitan ice cream, how do you scoop? Maybe you grab some chocolate and strawberry together, or maybe you eat one flavor at a time. The three flavors are in there to satisfy the variation you need ...
Jan 17, 2022
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The man who received the first pig heart transplant continued to recover Tuesday, four days after the experimental surgery.
Jan 12, 2022
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If you have a cold, don't ask your doctor for antibiotics—that's the golden rule. They're for bacterial infections, not viral ones. We're told not only that they won't work, but that by using antibiotics when they aren't ...
Jan 5, 2022
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At least 59 overdoses were prevented in the first three weeks that two overdose prevention centers have been open in New York City, the city's health department said Tuesday.
Dec 22, 2021
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Bladder cancer presents a number of challenges when choosing a course of treatment, but researchers at Iowa State University hope their innovative research might help doctors and patients arrive at an optimal treatment plan ...
Dec 7, 2021
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