McCormick co-sponsors a bill to federally regulate nitazenes, a powerful class of opioids stronger than fentanyl

McCormick said in a press conference Thursday that he was concerned nitazenes “would become the next fentanyl,” the opioid behind a massive rise in overdose deaths across the U.S.
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National Center for Tumor Diseases Precision Oncology Thesaurus for Drugs: A Curated Database for Drugs, Drug Classes, and Drug Targets in Precision Cancer Medicine

Association Between Price and Appropriateness of Cancer-Related Medical Information Generated by Chat-Based Artificial Intelligence Models The vision of precision oncology entails a shift toward (semi ...
Wall Street Journal

These Diabetes Drugs Are Finding New Life as an Antiaging Hack

Some health-obsessed Americans believe the next antiaging therapeutic already exists—in the medicine cabinets of millions of diabetes patients. The widely used class of drugs, called SGLT2 inhibitors ...
Medscape

Multiple Drug Classes Can Up Risk for Floppy Iris Syndrome

Drug classes such as alpha-1 blockers, atypical antipsychotics, and tricyclic antidepressants were associated with an increased incidence of intraoperative floppy iris syndrome (IFIS), with imipramine ...
Daily Mail

Killer Ketamine should be re-categorised as Class A drug after death of 'one in a million' woman so addicted she spent £500 a week on it, warns coroner

A CORONER has called for the government to consider reclassifying Ketamine as a class A drug following the death of a 'one in a million' woman who became so addicted she was using £500 of it every ...
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FDA rule would facilitate prescription-to-OTC switches but nix a third class of drugs

After a decade-long wait, the Food and Drug Administration finally issued a proposed rule in late June that would make it easier for pharmaceutical companies to switch products from prescription-only ...