Abuse of opioid drugs linked to mood and anxiety disorders
Mood and anxiety disorders such as bipolar, panic disorder and major depressive disorder appear to be highly associated with non-medical prescription opioid use.
Mood and anxiety disorders such as bipolar, panic disorder and major depressive disorder appear to be highly associated with non-medical prescription opioid use.
by Bruce Sylvester – Women with breast pain who undergo extra-routine mammograms, MRIs or ultrasounds as part of breast pain evaluation derive no diagnostic or therapeutic benefit, researchers… read more.
Paper presented on 5th June at ASCO – by Bruce Sylvester – The antidepressant duloxetine (Cymbalta ®), relieves neuropathic pain caused by chemotherapy in 59 percent of patients,… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers from a Phase III study report no difference in rates of viral clearance between two anemia management strategies for patients with chronic hepatitis… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers report that patients with genotype 2 or 3 hepatitis C virus (HCV) treated with investigative pegylated interferon lambda-1a (peg-IFN-lambda 1a, Bristol-Myers Squibb) in… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Two studies presented at EASL suggest the real human and economic costs of liver disease across Europe.
C. difficile is a bacterium that is common in the environment. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, approximately 337,000 cases of CDI are reported each… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers report that combination ABT-450 with ritonavir (ABT-450/r, Abbott) plus ABT-333 plus ribavirin (RBV) is both well tolerated and led to high sustained virological… read more.
Safety results were similar between groups. Data presented at EULAR 2012, the Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism, demonstrates that tocilizumab monotherapy is more effective than… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Researchers report that, in the last quarter of the 20th century, changes in smoking behaviors have led to a significant drop in lung cancer… read more.
by Bruce Sylvester – Opioid treatment offers relief and improved quality of life to patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and shortness of breath,
by Bruce Sylvester – A research paper published in ‘Tobacco Control’ by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) shows that tobacco control policies implemented in Ireland between 1998 and… read more.