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Anchor lead: How can we help people addicted to drugs without adequate numbers of providers? Elizabeth Tracey reports The journal Science has just reported that our problem with drug overdose deaths actually began in 1979, and has been rising steadily …
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Anchor lead: Opioids are just the latest in a long trend of escalating drug overdoses, Elizabeth Tracey reports Everyone knows opioids, including prescription drugs, heroin and fentanyl are the culprits when it comes to drug overdoses, right? Not so fast, …
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Anchor lead: Will a new, lower priced hearing aid encourage more people to use them? Elizabeth Tracey reports Have you or someone you love experienced hearing loss? You may know that such loss is usually progressive, leads to social isolation …
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Anchor lead: Will a new hearing aid encourage more people to use the devices? Elizabeth Tracey reports The audio manufacturer Bose has recently received FDA approval to market a hearing aid. Nicolas Reed, an audiologist and researcher at Johns Hopkins, …
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Anchor lead: Psilocybin’s list of conditions where it may help is expanding, Elizabeth Tracey reports The FDA is reviewing whether the hallucinogenic drug psilocybin should be reclassified to acknowledge areas where it is clinically useful, at the urging of Matthew …
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Anchor lead: Should the FDA approve psilocybin as a medicine? Elizabeth Tracey reports Psilocybin is a drug that the FDA currently categorizes as having no clinical value, but an initiative underway at Johns Hopkins and several other research facilities is …
