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Back to SearchReadily available treatment is important for opioid addiction, Elizabeth Tracey reports
Opioid overdoses continue to be a huge public health problem, with new synthetic opioids continuing to be developed. Eric Strain, a substance use dis…
1 year, 3 months ago
World Health Organization data paints an increased risk of cancer and cancer death for men, Elizabeth Tracey reports
How can we explain the disparity between cancer deaths among men and women, including the prognostication in a recent WHO report on cancer worldwide …
1 year, 3 months ago
Who is at risk for cancer development and death over the next decades? Elizabeth Tracey reports
The World Health Organization has recently released a snapshot of world cancer data, with a look forward to what we might expect regarding cancers of…
1 year, 3 months ago
How does infection risk relative to CAR-T treatment factor into therapy? Elizabeth Tracey reports
CAR-T therapy, where someone’s own immune cells are trained to go after their cancer, has now been shown to confer a heightened infection risk, and r…
1 year, 3 months ago
How is it that more and more powerful opioids are appearing among street drugs? Elizabeth Tracey reports.
Just keeping up with the names is difficult: fentanyl, carfentanyl, xylazine, now nitazines…and each has a host of harms and is more potent than its …
1 year, 3 months ago
Why add even more potent synthetic opioids to existing ones? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Adding the potent opioid nitazine to heroin or fentanyl is hard to understand, since it ups the likelihood you’ll kill your clientele. Eric Strain, a…
1 year, 3 months ago
What are the dangers of nitazines? Elizabeth Tracey reports
When someone is brought to the ED having overdosed, the clock is ticking to identify what substance they’ve used and then attempt to reverse it. John…
1 year, 3 months ago
Newer and more potent street opioids are always being developed, Elizabeth Tracey reports
No sooner does awareness of new types of street opioids develop than the next generation appears. Such is the case with nitazines, a class of opioids…
1 year, 3 months ago
There’s a new drug being added to opioids bought on the street, Elizabeth Tracey reports
First was heroin, then came fentanyl and its variations, then came xylazine. Now nitazines, a class of drugs that augment the action of opioids, are …
1 year, 3 months ago
What can we do to protect ourselves from respiratory infections? Elizabeth Tracey reports
Respiratory infections like seasonal influenza and Covid can be devastating. Johns Hopkins critical care physician and pandemic preparedness expert A…
1 year, 4 months ago