Nov 9, 2018
Patients undergoing surgery appear to be prescribed more opioids than are needed, using only 27% of the drugs prescribed from them. In a recent study from the USA, the number of dosage units had the strongest association with opioid consumption after surgery, with...
Nov 6, 2018
Despite the opioid crisis that it current in the USA, the FDA has recently approved a sublingual dosage form of sufentanyl, a drug with opioid effects an order of magnitude more powerful than fentanyl, which itself is implicated in many opioid-related deaths. Intended...
Nov 5, 2018
Researchers from Norway have recently published an investigation of thyroid function parameters amongst patients with psychosis who were treated with antipsychotics, comparing these people with healthy controls. 1345 patients with psychosis and 989 healthy controls...
Nov 3, 2018
Researchers from New Zealand have recently reported the results of a large trial involving 2000 women with osteopenia (T score of −1.0 to −2.5 at either the total hip or the femoral neck on either side), examining the role of intravenous intermittent zolendronate 5...
Nov 1, 2018
In the enthusiastic rush to embrace recreational and medicinal cannabis, it is possible that some factors associated with use of the drug are not receiving the attention they might. Adolescent cannabis use has been reported to be associated with compromised...
Oct 31, 2018
In a paper co-authored by the famous Canadian pharmacologist David Juurlink, the plausible causal link between between opioid use and depression has been highlighted. It is argued that evidence suggests that depression (commonly observed amongst people with chronic...
