Potentially Inappropriate Medications Found in Most Older Adults with Type 2 Diabetes, Landmark Study Reveals
A new study found that nearly two-thirds of older adults with type 2 diabetes are prescribed at least one potentially ...
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Methadone’s Hidden Cardiac Risk: Major Review Links Therapy to Dangerous Heart Rhythm Changes
A systematic review of 25 studies finds that methadone maintenance therapy is consistently linked to QTc interval prolongation, with dose, ...
Ketamine Plus Midazolam May Soften Psychiatric Fallout After Vascular Surgery
A large database study finds that vascular surgery patients given ketamine alone faced roughly doubled odds of new psychiatric diagnoses ...
Antidepressant Use Rises Sharply Among Greek Youth as Sedative Prescribing Declines
A five-year national analysis of Greek e-prescription data shows rising psychotropic dispensing among children, adolescents and young adults, driven mainly ...
Nerve Block Pathway Linked to Sharper Cuts in Sleep Medication Use
A retrospective cohort study found that adults with chronic insomnia and anxiety symptoms who received a stellate ganglion block-based care ...
Fifty-Year-Old Urine Drug Tests Are Misleading Doctors and Harming Patients, Experts Warn
Physicians warn that decades-old immunoassay-based urine drug tests routinely produce false results that mislead clinicians and harm patients, calling for ...
Inside the Long Goodbye: What Patients Say About Tapering Off Benzodiazepines
A qualitative study of nineteen patients in Swedish addiction care reveals that benzodiazepine tapering is experienced as an emotionally demanding ...
CDC Opioid Guideline Reshaped Prescribing for Older Adults, but Cancer Patients Were Largely Spared
A large SEER-Medicare analysis found that after the 2016 CDC opioid guideline, prescribing and high-risk co-prescribing fell far more among ...
Can New Sleep Drugs Help Patients Quit Risky Sleeping Pills?
A new commentary in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine examines whether dual orexin receptor antagonists can help patients safely ...
Nose-Friendly Sedative Spray Calms Children Faster Than Repurposed Injection, Trial Finds
A randomized trial in children undergoing inguinal hernia surgery found that a pH-adjusted intranasal midazolam spray sedated faster and caused ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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