Opioid use and misuse 3 months after ED visit for acute pain
Opioid use at the three-month follow-up in emergency department patients discharged with an opioid prescription for acute pain is relatively
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Vaccine could help address the opioid epidemic
Synthetic psychoactive drugs have become a serious public health threat in recent years. This is particularly true of the fentanyls,
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Cannabis pain relief without the ‘high’: Mechanism of cannabidiol for safe pain relief without side effects
In the wake of cannabis legalization, a team of scientists at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
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Protein found in patients with severe asthma can help identify who would benefit from targeted drugs
In a novel study, researchers succeeded in identifying patients with a form of severe asthma (type 2 endotype) by measuring
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Parent educational tools on pain relief help reduce babies’ vaccination distress
Information provided to new parents in hospital about how to alleviate pain for their babies during vaccination resulted in more
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PIEZO2, a molecular target for treating clinical pain
If you’ve ever been sunburned, you’ve experienced the dreaded pain of putting on a shirt the next day. Fabric that
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Scientists take big step toward finding non-addictive painkiller
With the support of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, scientists at Wake Forest School of Medicine have been working
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Improved immunity against reinfections
For years, researchers have had an established viewpoint of the function of a unique protein in the body called purinergic
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Forest ecology shapes Lyme disease risk in the eastern US: Predators, acorns, & fragmentation regulate numbers of infected ticks
In the eastern US, risk of contracting Lyme disease is higher in fragmented forests with high rodent densities and low
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Anticonvulsant drugs ineffective for low back pain and can cause harm, despite increased prescribing
Anticonvulsant drugs are increasingly being used to treat low back pain, but a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association
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