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Anchor lead: What’s the best way to handle the opioid crisis? Elizabeth Tracey reports Fewer opioid medications are being prescribed, that much is certain, but have deaths relative to opioid overdose declined? The most recent data haven’t yet shown such …
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Anchor lead: How should opioids be used when someone has surgery? Elizabeth Tracey reports Opioid medications are addictive. But they’re also effective for relieving severe pain. Now a study in the BMJ concludes that careful management of opioids in this …
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Anchor lead: Working nights may increase your risk of cancer, Elizabeth Tracey reports Working nights has been associated with a range of deleterious health outcomes for some time now, with a new study adding cancer to the mix. William Nelson, …
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Anchor lead: Can combining treatments lead to a win in lung cancer treatment? Elizabeth Tracey reports Using drugs that target so-called epigenetic changes, where chemical groups are added to DNA, may help one of the newest types of cancer therapy, …
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Anchor lead: It is practical to use ketamine to manage depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports The anesthetic agent ketamine is proving useful in treating depression, as well as alleviating suicidal thoughts when they occur, a recent study showed. Irving Reti, a …
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Anchor lead: Can the drug ketamine help people with depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports Ketamine is a drug that’s been around for quite a while, used for anesthesia. Now it’s proving its utility as a fast acting antidepressant, with the latest …
