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Oral Steroids Raise Infection Risk in Inflammatory Disease Patients

Oral Steroids Raise Infection Risk in Inflammatory Disease Patients

Oral steroid usage among patients with inflammatory diseases like polymyalgia rheumatica and/or giant cell arteritis significantly increased the risk of infection, especially with higher dos...

Adults Staying Near Medical Marijuana Stores Use It More

Adults Staying Near Medical Marijuana Stores Use It More

Young adults living near medical marijuana dispensaries use marijuana more often than their peers and have more-positive opinions about the drug, according to a new RAND Corporation study. ...

Cold Weather May Up Risk of Fatal Opioid Overdoses

Cold Weather May Up Risk of Fatal Opioid Overdoses

Fatal opioid overdoses are more likely to occur when the weather is too cold, reports a new study. The findings of the study are published in the journal Epidemiology . Cold weather sn...

Alcohol Consumption Even at Conception Damages Placenta Development

Alcohol Consumption Even at Conception Damages Placenta Development

Drinking alcohol even at conception was found to damage placenta development, said study. Although most women cease drinking once they know they are pregnant, the effect of alcohol du...

Five Things You Need to Know About Marijuana and Fertility

Five Things You Need to Know About Marijuana and Fertility

Smoking marijuana can cause fertility problems in both men and women, reports a new study. For patients who smoke marijuana and their physicians, 'Five things to know about marijuana an...

E-Cigarettes' Nicotine Found to Impair Mucus Clearance

E-Cigarettes' Nicotine Found to Impair Mucus Clearance

E-cigarette vaping with nicotine found to prevent mucus clearance from the airways, according to new research published online in the American Thoracic Society's American Journal of Respira...

Opioid Users Found Willing to Use Safe Consumption Spaces

Opioid Users Found Willing to Use Safe Consumption Spaces

Heroin and fentanyl users found willing to use safe consumption spaces where they could obtain sterile syringes and have medical support in case of overdose, according to a study led by rese...

Opioids Prescribed for Pain Found to Disrupt Sleep

Opioids Prescribed for Pain Found to Disrupt Sleep

Evidence that opioid intake will help people with long-term pain to sleep better is limited and of poor quality, according to an interdisciplinary team of psychologists and medics from the U...

Alzheimer's Drug to Help Overcome Opioid Addiction

Alzheimer's Drug to Help Overcome Opioid Addiction

Drug used to treat Alzheimer's disease could also treat patients addicted to opioids, according to a study published in The American Journal on Addictions . The medication, called gala...

Friends and Family Serve as a Gateway for opioid misuse

Friends and Family Serve as a Gateway for opioid misuse

Nonmedical opioid users began abusing opioids after friends and family members offered them, according to researchers. In a series of in-depth interviews with 30 opioid users from sout...

Cannabis Use Among Older Adults Rising Rapidly, Finds Study

Cannabis Use Among Older Adults Rising Rapidly, Finds Study

Among older adults, cannabis use is growing faster than any other age group, said researchers. Among older adults many report barriers to getting medical marijuana, a lack of communication w...

Nicotine and Caffeine Withdrawal may Lead to Unnecessary Suffering and Testing in Intensive Care Patients: Study

Nicotine and Caffeine Withdrawal may Lead to Unnecessary Suffering and Testing in Intensive Care Patients: Study

In intensive care units (ICUs), nicotine and caffeine withdrawal cause unnecessary suffering to patients and also lead to unwanted laboratory testing and diagnostic imaging such as X-rays an...

Polysubstance Abuse Linked to Opioid Overdose Deaths

Polysubstance Abuse Linked to Opioid Overdose Deaths

Polysubstance abuse was found in 82 percent of opioid-related deaths which could be due to certain sociodemographic factors, according to a new study led by the researchers of Boston Medical...

Steroids to Decrease Lung Cancer Risk in COPD Patients

Steroids to Decrease Lung Cancer Risk in COPD Patients

Inhaler steroids could reduce the risk of lung cancer by around 30 per cent among chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients, according to a new UBC analysis. The researcher...

Gyms Supplying Steroids in Name of Food Supplements, Says Health Expert

Gyms Supplying Steroids in Name of Food Supplements, Says Health Expert

Health clubs and gymnasiums across the country were found to provide youngsters with steroids and banned drugs in the name of food supplements that aid bodybuilding. However, some o...

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