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Heroin Addiction Explained: How Opioids Hijack the Brain
A look at how opioids hijack the brain, from temptation and tolerance to relapse and recovery.
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Lenny Bernstein
Interesting visual representation of the stages of opioid abuse by NYT
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Diet, weight loss and sex supplements are tainted with unapproved drugs
Some of the contaminants have been withdrawn from the market for safety reasons
Fentanyl test strips lead to more caution among illicit drug users
Users can determine whether their heroin is contaminated and protect themselves against overdoses.
‘Sammies’ honor government’s best and most innovative employees
A fed who led the U.S. response to the Zika virus is among this year’s honorees.
Nobel Prize in medicine goes to cancer immunotherapy researchers
James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo, from the United States and Japan, win prestigious award
Planned Parenthood taps Baltimore health commissioner as president
Leana Wen is an emergency-room doctor by training and one of the more outspoken and progressive advocates of new ways of grappling with the opioid epidemic.
Cities defiant after Justice Department’s threat on ‘supervised injection sites’
Local officials want to open facilities where drug users can be monitored to prevent overdoses. Federal authorities have promised ‘aggressive’ action against any city that does.
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Lenny Bernstein
Once again, cities trying to cope with events on their streets collide with Trump administration policy. This time it's over monitoring users of illegal drugs so they don't overdose. Our story
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When the crime victim is an animal, this lab helps solve the case
A federal wildlife forensics lab uses DNA, bullet analysis and a ghoulish panoply of pelts, bones, feathers and claws to thwart poachers and smugglers.
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Lenny Bernstein
This federal facility in Oregon is the world’s only full-service forensics lab for wildlife crimes. By @karinbrulliard on @posthealthsci
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Ebola outbreak now at 105 cases, and bordering countries are on alert
A vaccination drive and experimental treatments are underway, the head of the CDC said.
Rash of overdoses show dangers of powerful synthetic drugs
Synthetic drugs, including fentanyl, are driving the overdose death rates to record levels nationwide.
Nonprofit’s plan to take over the U.S. organ network is thwarted
A government requirement that bidders have three years of experience favors the contract-holder, competitors charged.
A quarter of adults with sprained ankles were prescribed opioids in the ER
The use of narcotic painkillers is common, even for an injury best treated with rest, ice and nonaddictive painkillers, study shows.
New York organ collection agency, nation’s second-largest, threatened with closure
LiveOnNY consistently ranks as one of the nation’s worst groups at recovering organs for transplantation.
Poachers were hunting rhinos. They were attacked by lions instead, game reserve says.
A skull and “one bit of pelvis” were found in the area, the owner of Sibuya Game Reserve said. “Everything else was completely gone.”
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Lenny Bernstein
Poachers were looking for rhinos. They found hungry lions instead. A skull and a bit of pelvis are all that’s left. By @thedeannapaul & @LindseyBever
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HPV test is better than Pap smear at detecting precancerous cervical changes, study says
The new data could accelerate a shift toward using the HPV test exclusively for cervical cancer screening.
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Lenny Bernstein
Pap smears missed a lot of cervical pre-cancer that HPV tests caught. Important study and a good reminder that HPV vaccine can protect against cervical cancer. By @LaurieMcGinley2 on @PostHealthSci
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In push to keep opioid pill numbers secret, DOJ claims release would spur robberies
The nation’s largest drug companies — backed by the U.S. Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration — are fighting to shield the release of information that would show how
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Lenny Bernstein
DEA and DOJ have joined with nation's largest drug companies to argue AGAINST release of opioid pill shipment data. @EricEyre explains
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Trump’s VA pick, a longtime aide to polarizing politicians, has defended extreme views
Robert Wilkie’s Senate confirmation hearing is scheduled for Wednesday.
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Lenny Bernstein
NEWS: Trump nominee to lead #VA defended Confederate insignia, attended Confederate memorial events, was a member of Sons of #Confederate Veterans via @Sonne, Paul @Reinlwapo
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NIH cancels $100 million study of moderate drinking as irrevocably compromised
Officials had secretly solicited $66 million from beer and liquor companies to fund the research.
Devastated by ALS, trying to save others
With his voice silenced and body ravaged, Rahul Desikan's research gives him 'reason to live.'
Lung cancer rates in younger white and Hispanic women surpass those of men
The change cannot be fully explained by gender differences in smoking behavior, researchers say.