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Anchor lead: Opioids really aren’t always best when it comes to pain, Elizabeth Tracey reports When it comes to pain treatment, opioid medications are best, right? Wrong, a recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association found. The …
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Anchor lead: What are the possibilities when it comes to medicines for addiction? Elizabeth Tracey reports As deaths from opioids continue apace, figuring out how best to help people overcome addiction is more important than ever, with one recent study …
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Anchor lead: Preventing infection with Mgen is the best way to avoid it, Elizabeth Tracey reports Mgen is shorthand for Mycoplasma genitalium, a sexually transmitted bacterial infection that can cause severe problems in women, including pelvic inflammatory disease and infertility, …
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Anchor lead: A new drug resistant sexually transmitted infection may be cause for alarm, Elizabeth Tracey reports Mycoplasma genitalium , or Mgen for short, is a bacterial infection transmitted sexually that’s being identified more and more often, at least when …
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Anchor lead: Should the antidote to opioids be prescribed along with the pain medicines? Elizabeth Tracey reports Naloxone, the drug used to reverse opioid overdoses, should be prescribed along with the powerful pain relievers, many advocacy groups believe. Eric Strain, …
