Facing addiction can seem insurmountable—especially when opioids are involved. Doubts of one's ability to stay substance-free; fears around judgment from family, friends, and society; and efforts to manage addiction while ...
Dec 17, 2021
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Researchers at the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a hyperactive cell signal that contributes to tumor growth in an aggressive blood cancer. They also developed an experimental therapeutic to block ...
Jul 23, 2019
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A new University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center study reveals more about changes that happen to cancer cells when they metastasize and identifies a promising target for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer.
May 9, 2023
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A biomarker in the brain predicts future cognitive decline in patients with the language form of Alzheimer's disease (AD), reports a new Northwestern Medicine study.
Sep 9, 2021
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For drugmaker Pfizer, a fortune amassed in the COVID pandemic is now paving the path to pharma nirvana: a weight loss pill worth billions.
Nov 9, 2022
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Patients taking benzodiazepines to treat psychiatric conditions should consider transitioning to other therapies because of heightened risks for dementia and death, according to clinicians from the American College of Osteopathic ...
Oct 5, 2015
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An average of 22 adolescents 14 to 18 years of age died in the U.S. each week in 2022 from drug overdoses, raising the death rate for this group to 5.2 per 100,000—driven by fentanyl in counterfeit pills, new research finds.
Jan 8, 2024
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Hasini Jayatilaka was a sophomore at the Johns Hopkins University working in a lab studying cancer cells when she noticed that when the cells become too densely packed, some would break off and start spreading.
Jun 20, 2017
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The costs of Alzheimer's disease—human and financial—are rising sharply in California and nationally, and census projections for America's rapidly aging population suggest the scope of the disease soon might rival what ...
Mar 21, 2023
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Cannabinoid products may interfere with some prescription medications, so people who use them should add these to the list of supplements they tell their doctors about.
Sep 18, 2023
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