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Training social workers in fight against opioids

18/10/2019 mediabest Medications

Nancy Ochoa was 15 years old the first time she used heroin with a group of friends. At 16, four

Opioid crisis cost US $631 billion over four years

17/10/2019 mediabest Medications

(HealthDay)—The U.S. opioid epidemic cost the nation’s economy $631 billion from 2015 through 2018, a new study says. Unrealized lifetime

US urges shared decisions with pain patients taking opioids

10/10/2019 mediabest Medications

U.S. health officials again warned doctors Thursday against abandoning chronic pain patients by abruptly stopping their opioid prescriptions. The U.S.

A breath test for opioids

04/10/2019 mediabest Medications

A test to detect opioid drugs in exhaled breath has been developed by engineers and physicians at the University of

High drug costs despite public R&D funding in the millions

26/09/2019 mediabest Medications

EUR 165 million in public and private R&D grants for the discovery and development of a drug that generates millions

France forgets own golden age of medical marijuana

25/09/2019 mediabest Medications

This past summer, the French food and drug office, the Agence Nationale de Sécurité du Médicament, greenlighted limited medical cannabis

Researchers develop new drug that fights cancer with less renal toxicity

18/09/2019 mediabest Medications

A team of pharmacists and chemists from the National University of Singapore (NUS) has developed a new anti-cancer drug that

Heartburn drug zantac may contain small amounts of known carcinogen, FDA says

13/09/2019 mediabest Medications

(HealthDay)—A substance that could cause cancer has been found in some ranitidine heartburn and ulcer medicines, including the brand-name drug

U.S. opioid prescription rate is 7 times that of Sweden

04/09/2019 mediabest Medications

(HealthDay)—Amid an epidemic of opioid painkiller addiction, Americans are still being overprescribed narcotic painkillers compared to many other countries, researchers

Australia has an acetaminophen poisoning problem

02/09/2019 mediabest Medications

Most of us take paracetamol (acetaminophen) every now and again to reduce pain or fever. As far as medications go,