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Filed under: drug abuse treatment outcome study

With support from the National Institutes of Health, Flynn and others embarked on a clinical trial of a then-experimental drug that later became a powerful tool in disrupting the disease. “Part of the data we collected here was to use didanosine to …
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Antibiotic-resistant bacteria: more dangerous than AIDS?

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Antibiotics have been commonly available since the 1940s, and since penicillin became the first widely used drug, they have saved countless amounts of lives from infections ranging from pneumonia to sexually transmitted diseases. … "As MRSA …
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Parity Laws Boost Drug Abuse Treatment

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To determine the effect of these laws on utilization of these therapies, Wen and colleagues analyzed data from the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services. This federal survey program collects information annually from virtually all …
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ImmunoGen scuttles lead PhII armed-antibody trial after tracking infection risk

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The biotech ($ IMGN) says it has hit the brakes on a Phase II study of IMGN901–its lead pipeline therapy–after researchers concluded that the drug arm experienced a higher risk of infection and one cancer patient died from an infection which was …
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