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American Heroin Part 3: Hope and Recovery

As perceptions among lawmakers and medical professionals shift toward seeing the current heroin epidemic as a public health crisis, policies are slowly falling into place that are aimed at saving lives. But despite these...
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The History of Prescription Drugs

The medical industry has undergone major overhauls throughout the course of history. Medicines have been discovered as cures for diseases once thought incurable. People are staying healthier and living longer and medical advancements are...
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Personalized Medicine Gives New Hope to Lung Cancer Patients

Innovative genetic research is changing the way doctors are treating their patients, especially in the fight against cancer. It is now possible for doctors to look at cancer cases individually by looking at the...
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Experts Weigh In on Finasteride as Prostate Cancer Prevention Drug

A decade ago, a drug sold as Proscar by Merck & Co. (and in generic form as Finasteride) was found to cut the risk of prostate cancer, but researchers also noted a slight increase...

EHR May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered to Treat Patient Medication Compliance

EHR may be key to treating patient medication non-compliance.
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WHO’s Essential Meds List: Slowing the Pace of Antibiotic Resistance

The 2017 Essential Medicines List released Tuesday by the World Health Organization (WHO) includes new drugs for hepatitis C, leukemia, HIV and tuberculosis, among others. The updated list also makes new recommendations for what antibiotics...
American Heroin Epidemic

American Heroin: Medicine, Crisis, Epidemic – Part 1: A Nation in Pain

Opiate use is deeply rooted in American history, with waves of addiction rolling over the vast North American landscape over the last two centuries. As a 2014 piece from The Atlantic noted, “with the...