As overdose deaths in Minnesota decline, Minneapolis and the University of Minnesota install free emergency naloxone. Overdose deaths dropped by about 24% in the U.S. in 2024, a decline ...

More than 16,000 people have died as a result of toxic drugs — contaminated mostly by fentanyl and carfentanil— since the ...

More than 16,000 people have died as a result of toxic drugs — contaminated mostly by fentanyl and carfentanil— since the ...

There are about 120 species of frogs belonging to the genus Phyllobates, including the posion dart frog, that can secrete a ...

A literature search identified more than a dozen published reports on the use of pure opioid antagonists (naloxone, naltrexone, methylnaltrexone) for the management of OIP in pediatric and adult ...

Enzyme mechanisms are the chemical transformations, and the steps within them, generated by enzymatic action on substrates. The mechanism of enzyme catalysis is similar in principle to other types ...

New research to be presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11–14 May) shows that around two-thirds of participants of the SURMOUNT-1 trial had only regained 5% or ...

Cardiac arrest from opioid overdoses is usually secondary to respiratory arrest. Naloxone reverses narcotic overdoses by binding to opioid receptors, which blocks stimulation from the opioid ...

Apr. 9, 2025 — Heavy drinkers who have eight or more alcoholic drinks per week have an increased risk of brain lesions called hyaline arteriolosclerosis, signs of brain injury that are ...

Age, location and severity of injury, mechanism of injury and medical comorbidities will affect the type of TBI sustained. In a recent University of Washington Emergency Medicine Department ...

aNational Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA bNational Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD, USA Drug ...

This new system improves reporting completeness, allows automated enrollment in the billing assistance program, and provides a mechanism to request assistance from Maine CDC Public Health Nursing.