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Binge Drinking May Up Risk of Developing Alcohol Problems

Binge Drinking May Up Risk of Developing Alcohol Problems

Moderate drinkers who binge alcohol were found to be at a higher risk of developing alcohol problems, reveals a new study. The new study from researchers at The University of Texas at Austin appearing in the American Journal of Preventive ...

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Menthol Cigarettes Increase Youth Smoking, Nicotine Addiction

Menthol Cigarettes Increase Youth Smoking, Nicotine Addiction

The United States Food and Drug Administration is set to finalize rules prohibiting menthol in tobacco products citing an effort to reduce addiction and youth experimentation, improve quitting among current smokers and address health disparities. ...

Alcohol Improves Quality of Life After Surgery

Alcohol Improves Quality of Life After Surgery

Older adults who drink alcohol report better mobility, self-care and fewer problems after surgery, revealed study. The study by Vera Guttenthaler and Dr. Maria Wittmann from the University Hospital Bonn in Germany is being presented at this ...

Aromatherapy can Reduce Post-surgical Opioid Use by Half: Study

Aromatherapy can Reduce Post-surgical Opioid Use by Half: Study

Post-surgical opioid use in hip replacement patients can be reduced by half with aromatherapy, reveals a new study. The new preliminary was study presented at the annual meeting of the European Society of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care ...

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Low-Dose Morphine Can Help Patients With Lung Disease to Sleep Better

Low-Dose Morphine Can Help Patients With Lung Disease to Sleep Better

New trial is seeking people with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) to take part in a two-week study assessing the effects of a low-dose morphine daily pill for its effect on breathlessness. COPD is diagnosed in about 1 in 20 ...

Alcohol Linked to Elevated Risk of Heart Failure

Alcohol Linked to Elevated Risk of Heart Failure

Heart risk might be elevated, more than previously thought when it comes to alcohol as per a study presented at Heart Failure 2022, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 “This study adds to the body of ...

Medicinal Cannabis May Compensate Cancer-related Pain

Medicinal Cannabis May Compensate Cancer-related Pain

Pain and need for opiate painkillers among cancer patients may be reduced by medicinal cannabis as per a study published in Frontiers in Pain Research. The study findings suggest that medicinal cannabis can be carefully considered as an ...

Steroids Slow Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Progression When Consumed Daily

Steroids Slow Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Progression When Consumed Daily

Daily steroid doses for children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) mark a significant change in treating the disease. The findings are published in JAMA . University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) neurologist Robert Griggs, MD, and ...

Steroids After COVID-19 Recovery May Lower Death Risk

Steroids After COVID-19 Recovery May Lower Death Risk

Hospitalized patients who seemingly recovered from severe COVID-19 run more than double the risk of dying within the next year, compared to people who experienced only mild or moderate symptoms and who had not been hospitalized, or who never caught ...

Drug that Lowers Risk of Opioid Overdose Underused

Drug that Lowers Risk of Opioid Overdose Underused

Life-saving medication was offered to less than half of Americans who received treatment for opioid use disorder over a five-year period, as per the team of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Saint Louis ...

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Wearable Device Monitors Glucose and Alcohol Levels Continuously

Wearable Device Monitors Glucose and Alcohol Levels Continuously

New continuous wearable device monitors the levels of glucose, alcohol and lactate. It is about the size of a stack of six quarters. It is applied to the skin through a Velcro-like patch of microscopic needles, or microneedles, that are each ...

Cannabis Poisoning Cases in Pets on Rise

Cannabis Poisoning Cases in Pets on Rise

Mounting cases of cannabis poisoning among pets shed new light on symptoms, treatments, and outcomes. Findings of the study have been published in PLOS ONE . While prior evidence suggests that cases of cannabis poisoning among pets are ...

Cannabis Edibles or Fruit Snacks? – Hidden Threat to Kids’ Health

Cannabis Edibles or Fruit Snacks? – Hidden Threat to Kids’ Health

Some cannabis edibles look remarkably like popular snack foods and may be easily confused for them, finds a new study led by researchers at NYU School of Global Public Health published in Drug and Alcohol Dependence . “ At first glance, most of ...

Psilocybin (Magic Mushrooms) Use Linked to Lower Risk Of Opioid Addiction

Psilocybin (Magic Mushrooms) Use Linked to Lower Risk Of Opioid Addiction

Adults who used psilocybin – a psychedelic substance produced by mushrooms – are 30% less likely to have opioid use disorder, according to a nationally representative survey of US adults reported in Scientific Reports. Grant Jones and ...

Alcohol Deaddiction Drug May be the Next Anxiety Medication

Alcohol Deaddiction Drug May be the Next Anxiety Medication

Disulfiram (DSF) is approved by the Food and Drug Agency (FDA) for the treatment of alcoholism. DSF acts by inhibiting aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), which is responsible for the metabolism of alcohol. DSF in fact inhibits a cytoplasmic ...

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