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| research/study
Experimental Drug Improves Bone Growth in Children with Dwarfism
Researchers...report that an experimental drug called vosoritide, which interferes with certain proteins that block bone growth, allowed the average annual growth rate to...
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| addiction
Inpatient Opioid Prescribing—Is There a Risk of Continued Use?
People who receive opioids for the first time while hospitalized have double the risk of continuing to...
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| palliative care
End-of-Life, Potentially Painful Treatment Decisions
Terminally ill patients who request that physicians make decisions on their behalf are more likely to receive aggressive treatments in the...
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| sickle cell disease (SCD)
Predicting Pain? New Rapid, Reliable Sickle Cell Disease Monitor
Sickle cell disease is a hereditary disorder that affects red blood cells, distorting their natural disc shape into a crescent moon or “sickle” shape. Normal...
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| diabetic peripheral neuropathy
Painful Neuropathy? Look to Genetic Factors, Diabetes History
Researchers...using a genome-wide association study, have identified a genetic factor linked to the development of...
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| back pain
Implant Reduces Herniated Disc Recurrence—and Pain
NYU Langone Health last month became the first center in the United States to perform a discectomy with repair of a large annular defect using...
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