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Continuing vs. discontinuing opioid medications prescriptions for adults with chronic pain

Chronic pain is complex and difficult to treat. Prescribing opioid pain medications has become controversial but may help some patients.…

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Banning Medications Now

As a patients’ rights attorney for clients with mental health issues, I cannot even begin to tell you all how…

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State Department Permits Distribution of H.I.V. Medications to Resume — for Now

The Trump administration on Tuesday issued a waiver for lifesaving medicines and medical services, offering a reprieve for a worldwide…

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Scientists May Be Able to Make Grapefruits Compatible With Medications They Currently Interfere With

You may be among the millions of people who have seen a surprisingly specific warning like this on the labels…

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Study shows drop in use of antiviral medications in young children with influenza

Despite national medical guidelines supporting the use of antiviral medications in young children diagnosed with influenza, a recent study reports…

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Antipsychotic medications don’t always work the way they’re supposed to

A new study conducted by researchers at the University of Waterloo analyzed data from nearly 500,000 Canadian patients who lived…

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Genetic data from ‘biobanks’ may help improve prediction of effectiveness, side effects of common medications

A UCLA study has outlined a new framework that researchers say would improve predictive power of genetics to determine how…

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Newer epilepsy medications used during pregnancy do not affect neurological development in children

Children of mothers who took certain anti-seizure medications while pregnant do not have worse neurodevelopmental outcomes at age 6, according…

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Skeletal muscle health amid growing use of weight loss medications

A recent commentary published in The Lancet journal highlights the critical importance of skeletal muscle mass in the context of…

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A ‘chemical ChatGPT’ for new medications

Researchers from the University of Bonn have trained an AI process to predict potential active ingredients with special properties. Therefore,…

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