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...Instead, only about 5,600 patients had been approved for treatment by early April, according to a registry by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services shared with the Financial Times....
...Her mental health worsened and, by 14, she had entered residential care to receive treatment for anorexia....
...Tom Frieden, the former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention between 2009 and 2017, told the FT: “These tests are essentially a little or even no value if they come back within that...
...Treatment options for menopause are limited....
...There have been 750,000 overdose deaths since the crisis began in 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and about two-thirds involved an opioid....
...treatments....
...“The Center for Disease Control has made it very clear: the reason so many Americans are addicted to opioids is that the medical community began to prescribe very aggressively starting in the mid-90s....
...Last month, Verily opened OneFifteen, a collaboration with local health services in Ohio to create a state of the art opioid addiction treatment centre....
...The company hired the legal firm Davis Polk & Wardell for advice on restructuring last summer....
...J&J runs programmes that counsel nurses and physicians about pain management, collaborate on research into treatments for opioid use disorder and give expectant parents information on the risks of opioids...
...David Greenfield, a clinical psychologist who founded the Connecticut-based Center for Internet and Technology Addiction, is pushing for greater education....
...(City AM) Prescription addiction The UK launched a review into prescription drug addiction....
...(Nuffield Council on Bioethics) Future of IVF More radical treatments are on the horizon for cases of infertility in which sperm or eggs are absent or too low in quality for today’s IVF techniques to work...
...resources to run addiction treatment centres....
...(ABC News) Gender bias Women get short shrift for medical treatment and are more likely to be serially misdiagnosed....
...Opioid abuse has been described as a “national epidemic” by the US Centers for Disease Control, putting pressure on the FDA to find ways to contain it....
...However, even those involved in developing a new class of opioids, concede that the drugs are no panacea for America’s painkiller addiction....
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