How opioid addiction occurs
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Scottsdale, Arizona - Anyone who takes opioids is at risk of developing addiction. Your personal history and the length of time you use opioids play a role, but it's impossible to predict who's vulnerable to eventual dependence on and abuse of these drugs. Legal or illegal, stolen and shared, these drugs are responsible for the majority of overdose deaths in the U.S. today.
When are opioids OK to take?
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Rochester, Minnesota - Opioids can help manage some pain, but it's easy to use them inappropriately. Misuse can cause illness, harm or death. And health problems can develop even when you think you're being careful. Reporter Vivien Williams talks with Dr. Mike Hooten, a pain management specialist at Mayo Clinic.
White Paper by Insulin Access and Affordability Working Group at Hearing of Senate Special Committee on Aging
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Washington, DC - Tuesday, the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA’s) Chief Scientific, Medical and Mission Officer William T. Cefalu, MD, testified before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging (Committee). Dr. Cefalu addressed the Committee and answered questions about the rising costs of insulin, which impacts millions of Americans with diabetes who rely on this life-sustaining medication. He also shared the findings of the ADA’s “Insulin Access and Affordability Working Group: Conclusions and Recommendations” white paper, which was simultaneously published online today in the journal Diabetes Care.
More than one day of early-pregnancy bleeding linked to lower birthweight
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Washington, DC - Women who experience vaginal bleeding for more than one day during the first trimester of pregnancy may be more likely to have a smaller baby, compared to women who do not experience bleeding in the first trimester, suggest researchers at the National Institutes of Health. On average, full-term babies born to women with more than one day of bleeding in the first trimester were about 3 ounces lighter than those born to women with no bleeding during this time. Additionally, infants born to women with more than a day of first trimester bleeding were roughly twice as likely to be small for gestational age, a category that includes infants who are healthy but small, as well as those whose growth has been restricted because of insufficient nutrition or oxygen or other causes.
President Trump on Lowering Drug Prices
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Washington, DC - Remarks by President Trump on Lowering Drug Prices:
Despite mutations in Makona Ebola virus, disease consistent in mice, monkeys
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Washington, DC - Early during the recent Ebola epidemic in West Africa, scientists speculated that the genetic diversity of the circulating Makona strain of virus (EBOV-Makona) would result in more severe disease and more transmissibility than prior strains. However, using two different animal models, National Institutes of Health scientists have determined that certain mutations stabilized early during the epidemic and did not alter Ebola disease presentation or outcome. Their work, published in Cell Reports, offers further evidence to support previous findings from molecular sequencing that the diversity of EBOV-Makona did not significantly impact the course of disease.
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