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More schools stock overdose reversal meds, but others worry about stigma

Last year, a student fell unconscious after walking out of a bathroom at Central High School in Pueblo, Colorado.

3 Oct 2023

£5 million awarded to 12 projects aimed at tackling fatal drug overdoses

12 projects awarded a share of £5 million to reduce rates of fatal drug overdoses, as part of Vaccine Taskforce style approach to tackle health challenges.

29 Aug 2023

U.S. Army develops broad-spectrum snakebite antidote for use in austere environments

Members of the Warfighter Protection and Acute Care Project Management Office were recognized for program management excellence during the annual Military Health System Research Symposium in Kissimmee, Florida, Aug. 14.

28 Aug 2023

New DNA-based anticoagulant could treat heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

Various medical circumstances, including heart attacks and extreme cases of COVID-19, necessitate the use of anticoagulants, medicines that prevent blood clots

21 Aug 2023

Fentanyl overdose reversal: New hope on the horizon

According to the Centers for Disease Control, 100,000 Americans die each year from an overdose, most due to the use of synthetic opiates like fentanyl. While naloxone, currently the only an antidote for opiate overdose, has become more common, it is less effective against fentanyl-class synthetic opioids.

18 Jul 2023

Fentanyl could be weaponized and used for terroristic mass poisoning

The widely-available drug fentanyl, already the number one killer of Americans under 50, could be weaponized and used for terroristic mass poisoning, according to health experts at Rutgers and other institutions.

1 Jun 2023

California confronts overdose epidemic among former prison inmates

Michael Vera walked into a bedroom of a residential drug treatment program in Los Angeles in March to find its occupant slumped over on his bed and struggling to breathe, a homemade straw on the floor beside him and tinfoil with what appeared to be drug residue under his body.

10 May 2023

Study offers novel insights into reducing adverse effects of antibiotics on the gut microbiome

Antibiotics help to fight bacterial infections, but they can also harm the helpful microbes living in the gut, which can have long-lasting health consequences.

17 Apr 2023

CBD-based compounds boost the effects of naloxone

There's been a recent push in the U.S. to make naloxone -; a fast-acting opioid antidote -; available without a prescription.

28 Mar 2023

Study suggests a novel strategy to combat multidrug-resistant S. pneumoniae infections

Pneumococcal disease leads to over three million hospitalizations and hundreds of thousands of deaths annually.

17 Mar 2023

As opioids mixed with animal tranquilizers arrive in Kensington, so do alarming health challenges

Many people living on the streets in Philadelphia's Kensington neighborhood — the largest open-air drug market on the East Coast — are in full-blown addiction, openly snorting, smoking, or injecting illicit drugs, hunched over crates or on stoops. Syringes litter sidewalks, and the stench of urine fouls the air.

15 Feb 2023

Reason-based abortion bans harm the groups impacted by eugenics movements, research finds

In his 2019 opinion in Box v Planned Parenthood, Justice Clarence Thomas wrote an impassioned concurrence describing abortions based on sex, disability or race as a form of 'modern-day eugenics'.

3 Feb 2023

New chemical compound shows promise to reverse effects of potentially deadly drugs

Drug overdoses in the United States have risen sharply in the last two decades. Nearly 92,000 people died from overdoses of illegal drugs and prescription opioids in 2020-;more than five times the number of deaths in the year 2000-;and synthetic opioids like fentanyl are one of the main culprits.

16 Dec 2022

Lipid screening and dyslipidemia intervention in adolescence may stop atherosclerosis progression

Consistently elevated lipids and dyslipidemia in early life were associated with worsening subclinical atherosclerosis, but simulated lipid treatment in late adolescence stopped atherosclerosis progression, a paper published in Atherosclerosis concludes.

15 Nov 2022

‘Separate and unequal’: Critics say Newsom’s pricey Medicaid reforms leave most patients behind

It wasn't exactly an emergency, but Michael Reed, a security guard who lives in Watts, had back pain and ran out of his blood pressure medication.

12 Oct 2022

World Mental Health Day 2022: Mental Health for All

News-Medical speaks to Prof. Charlotte Hanlon, psychiatrist and researcher, about her work within the field of Global Mental Health and the importance of raising awareness around this year's theme, "Make mental health and wellbeing for all a global priority."

10 Oct 2022

Antidote News and Research

More schools stock overdose reversal meds, but others worry about stigma

£5 million awarded to 12 projects aimed at tackling fatal drug overdoses

U.S. Army develops broad-spectrum snakebite antidote for use in austere environments

New DNA-based anticoagulant could treat heparin-induced thrombocytopenia

Fentanyl overdose reversal: New hope on the horizon

Fentanyl could be weaponized and used for terroristic mass poisoning

California confronts overdose epidemic among former prison inmates

Study offers novel insights into reducing adverse effects of antibiotics on the gut microbiome

CBD-based compounds boost the effects of naloxone

Study suggests a novel strategy to combat multidrug-resistant S. pneumoniae infections

As opioids mixed with animal tranquilizers arrive in Kensington, so do alarming health challenges

Reason-based abortion bans harm the groups impacted by eugenics movements, research finds

New chemical compound shows promise to reverse effects of potentially deadly drugs

Lipid screening and dyslipidemia intervention in adolescence may stop atherosclerosis progression

‘Separate and unequal’: Critics say Newsom’s pricey Medicaid reforms leave most patients behind

World Mental Health Day 2022: Mental Health for All

Mouse model reveals link between GABA receptors and sleepiness in people with myotonic dystrophy

Out-of-pocket costs may prevent uninsured Americans from accessing naloxone

Scientists develop nanoantidote to reduce acidosis in critically ill COVID-19 patients

Fully reduced form of vitamin K found to efficiently inhibit ferroptotic cell death

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