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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 …
