Heroin Making Inroads in Ky.'s Pain Pill Country

Heroin making inroads in Ky.'s pain pill country

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Keith Mills, a drug counselor with WestCare, which offers addiction treatment in the Appalachian city of Pikeville, said the users he's seen have switched because of price and availability. While prescription pills are still a major problem in the …
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Ponatinib acts against the most resistant types of chronic myeloid leukemia

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HOUSTON – A previously invincible mutation in chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) has been thwarted by an investigational drug in a phase I clinical trial reported in the current edition of The New England Journal of Medicine. All 12 patients in the trial …
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Ukraine fights spreading HIV epidemic

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Some 120,000 are in urgent need of anti-retroviral therapy, which can greatly prolong and improve the quality of their lives. But due to a lack of funds, fewer than a quarter are receiving the drugs — one of the lowest levels in the world. Ukraine's …
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