There are no approved medications to treat either cocaine addiction or overdose. Frequent users tend to become less and less sensitive to the drug, leading to stronger or more frequent doses. The typical result is an addiction. Exposure to the drug, or to drug-associated cues, even after long periods of abstention, often leads to relapse
Among patients with cardiovascular disease, it's a common complaint: a sudden, piercing pain, stiffness or tenderness in a joint that lasts for days at a time with all signs pointing to a gout attack
Someday doctors may prescribe sugar pills for certain chronic pain patients based on their brain anatomy and psychology. And the pills will reduce their pain as effectively as any powerful drug on the market, according to new research
The use of a brief sleep intervention provided in the first months of life and designed to improve sleep habits from birth is associated with a reduced risk of obesity up to age 5, according to new research
Anyone with arthritis can appreciate how useful it would be if scientists could grow cartilage in the lab. To this end, Keck School of Medicine of USC scientists in the USC Stem Cell laboratory of Denis Evseenko, MD, Ph.D., collaborated with colleagues at several institutions to provide new insights into how gene activity drives the development of cartilage. Their findings appear today in Nature Communications
Newly formed blood vessels may be cracks in the barrier between the bloodstream and the eye, according to a Northwestern Medicine study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
New research published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes [EASD]) shows that if a woman gains either too much or too little weight during pregnancy, there are adverse effects in children at 7 years of age. The study is by Professor Wing Hung Tam and Professor Ronald C.W. Ma, at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, and colleagues
An Ontario clinical study that shows adding PET imaging to conventional CT imaging to stage locally advanced cervix cancer can change treatment means newly diagnosed women in this province may also receive PET imaging
Lymphatic vessels that clean the brain of harmful material play a crucial role in the development and progression of multiple sclerosis, new research from the University of Virginia School of Medicine suggests
Cutting elevated serum uric acid levels with febuxostat (Uloric, Takeda Pharmaceuticals) in patients with cardiovascular (CV) risk factors may protect the kidneys better than standard management, suggests a randomized trial, but one considered too small to be conclusive
Routine prostate-specific antigen (PSA)–based screening for prostate cancer remains controversial, as the debate continues over the balance between potential benefits and potential harm
Everyone knows that smoking cigarette is dangerous. Smoking cigarettes kill more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, HIV, guns, and illegal drugs combined and, according to the American Cancer Society, about half of all Americans who keep smoking will die from their addiction. But what about electronic cigarettes?