Tag: Drug Tolerance
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Opioid Crisis: How COVID-19 Has Accelerated Addiction Risk
What happens when two epidemics meet? The opioid epidemic has been one of the most growing public health emergencies in American history. As such, it wasn’t long before the top two public health emergencies met and created a bigger crisis. According to provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released in…
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Rutgers Tuberculosis Study Provides New Hope to Combat This Epidemic
A Rutgers New Jersey Medical School tuberculosis study has found a genetically tractable cause of drug tolerance tuberculosis. It is hoped this important discovery will pave the way for researchers to develop new drugs to combat the global tuberculosis epidemic. And cure the disease. The study was led by Drs. Hassan Safi, assistant professor of medicine,…