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Anchor lead: Now it’s more important than ever to have advance directives, Elizabeth Tracey reports Preparing for a Better End is the title of a timely new book by Dan Morehaim, an emergency medicine physician and former professor in the Johns …
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Anchor lead: Psilocybin may help depression when other therapies fail, Elizabeth Tracey reports A small Johns Hopkins study led by Alan Davis has shown that some people with depression that hasn’t responded to other types of intervention may respond to …
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Anchor lead: Can psilocybin help depression? Elizabeth Tracey reports Psilocybin-assisted therapy helped the majority of participants with major depressive disorder experience resolution of their symptoms, a small study led by Alan Davis and colleagues at Johns Hopkins has found. Davis …
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Anchor lead: More cases of reinfection with Sars-CoV2 are turning up, Elizabeth Tracey reports More than a dozen cases of reinfection with Sars-CoV2 have been reported worldwide, causing alarm over just how protective antibodies to the virus are and how …
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Anchor lead: Should we be concerned about immunity when antibodies are given as therapy? Elizabeth Tracey reports At least two types of antibody therapy are now being used for Covid-19, yet some concerns remain about whether such therapy will compromise …
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Anchor lead: A monoclonal antibody against Covid-19 has been granted emergency use authorization, Elizabeth Tracey reports Antibodies developed in a laboratory against a protein Sars-CoV2 uses to enter cells have been granted emergency use authorization by the FDA. Arturo Casadevall, …
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Anchor lead: FDA regulators may have contributed to the prescription opioid epidemic, Elizabeth Tracey reports Enhanced enrichment randomized withdrawal. Hmmm, not sure what that might sound like to you, but Caleb Alexander, a physician and researcher at Johns Hopkins, shows …
