A straightforward patient-education brochure that explains how to dispose of unused pain pills can help battle the nation’s opioid epidemic, researchers say. Unused prescription painkillers lying around the home have proven to be a major source of drugs supplying the epidemic. Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes Jewish Hospital, St. Louis,… Continue reading A Simple Brochure May Help Combat the Opioid Epidemic
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Pill-Only Regimens Cure Hep C
Two new pill-only regimens that rapidly cure most patients with genotype 1 hepatitis C (HCV), the most difficult to treat form of the infection, could soon be widely prescribed across Europe. Recently-published studies confirmed the efficacy and safety of combination therapy with two oral direct-acting antiviral agents (DAAs), with around 90% of patients cured after… Continue reading Pill-Only Regimens Cure Hep C
Positive Expectations and Depression
Positive thinking may help some depressed patients after all, according to a new study on the placebo effect in medical research. Over the past three decades, researchers say, there’s been a sharp rise in patients’ positive response to placebos – the fake medication given to some study participants who think it’s actual medicine. The latest… Continue reading Positive Expectations and Depression