Senator demands federal agencies limit use of prescription fentanyl
(By David Armstrong for STAT) A US senator is urging federal agencies to limit the use of a prescription version
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Emerging Health Issues
Many Localities Find Past Ambivalence On Mosquitos Hinders Zika Response
(By Emily Kopp for Kaiser Health News) As Zika skipped into Puerto Rico and then Florida this summer and threatened
Read MoreGot Zika? For Pregnant Women, Lab Constraints Mean It’s Often Hard To Know
(By Shefali Luthra for Kaiser Health News) Houston-based Legacy Community Health Services, a federally qualified health center, is trying hard
Read MoreRehab For Addiction Usually Lasts 28 Days. But Why?
(By Ben Allen, WITF for Kaiser Health News) Louis Casanova is playing cards with a friend on the back deck
Read MoreFor cancer patients, newest treatments force the ultimate decision, with no room for error
(By Bob Tedeschi for STAT) GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Three weeks earlier she’d been done. Done with the chemo and the
Read MoreNovel study of pancreatic cancer aims to give patients more treatment options
(By Sharon Begley for STAT) Just 3 percent1 of adult cancer patients participate in clinical trials of experimental treatments. In
Read MoreNot just for medics: Drugs that reverse opioid overdoses are being pushed to the masses
(By Andrew Joseph for STAT) BALTIMORE — After two decades of sending a needle exchange van around this city, officials
Read MoreWhy fentanyl is deadlier than heroin, in a single photo
(By Allison Bond for STAT) The opioid crisis just keeps getting worse, in part because new types of drugs keep
Read MoreWhen a Nobel Prize brings a shower of hype: the roller coaster ride of RNAi
(By Meghana Keshavan for STAT) When the Nobel Prizes are announced next week, the winning biomedical discovery is certain to
Read MoreBeware Of Unapproved Stem Cell Treatments
(By Emily Bazar for California Healthline) A website for five affiliated stem cell clinics, four of them in California, hails
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