Addicts Turn to Heroin as Pain Pills Become Scarce – NECN.com
Addicts turn to heroin as pain pills become scarce – NECN.com
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In 2012, Broward County — just a few years ago considered the center of the pill mill problem — addiction treatment centers saw an 87 percent spike in admissions among addicts using heroin as their drug of choice, jumping from 169 to 316, according …
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Pointing to threat, pulling in profit
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In the 2003 report, published while raxi was in development at Human Genome, Danzig said a drug to combat resistant strains of anthrax should be produced “as soon as possible” and that stockpiling such a treatment, “even if expensive and in limited …
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Genetic diversity within tumors predicts outcome in head and neck cancer
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A new measure of the heterogeneity – the variety of genetic mutations – of cells within a tumor appears to predict treatment outcomes of patients with the most common type of head and neck cancer. In the May 20 issue of the journal Cancer, … "Our …
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Doctor to offer cancer genomic sequencing
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Intermountain Healthcare, along with a handful of academic medical centers worldwide, will be one of the first healthcare systems in the country to treat patients using genetic sequencing technologies. Nadauld, who specializes in cancer genomic …
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