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Every time you pop an aspirin, thank the German chemist Hoffmann and not Hippocrates.
Scientists have taken atomic resolution snapshots of an opioid receptor interacting with a drug. Now they are using these images to design “biased” opioids that block pain without the dangerous side effects.
They’re often no more effective than placebo, but that shouldn’t necessarily stop us using them.
When you’re in pain, it’s hard to think about anything else. In many cases, it won’t go away until you take something for it, but how do you know what type and strength to take?
Yeast can produce opioid from sugar but although a proof of concept, we’re still far away from production at scale.
Many first responders’ – even some university police officers – are carrying a new tool in their first-aid kits. It’s naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote drug, and today it’s more widely available than…
Older Australians are being prescribed pain relievers for an average of five years when clinical guidelines recommend short-term…
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