Megan Brooks Life-threatening breathing difficulties can occur in patients who use gabapentin or pregabalin with opioids or other drugs that depress the central nervous system, as well as those with underlying respiratory impairment and the elderly, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned in a drug safety communication issued today. “Reports of gabapentinoid abuse...
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FDA Warns of ‘Serious’ Respiratory Problems With Gabapentin
Megan Brooks Life-threatening breathing difficulties can occur in patients who use gabapentin or pregabalin with opioids or other drugs that depress the central nervous system, as well as those with underlying respiratory impairment and the elderly, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned in a drug safety communication issued today. “Reports of gabapentinoid abuse alone, and with opioids, have emerged...
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Some 15,000 Spaniards may be unaware they are suffering from the rare bone disease hypophosphatasia
by University of Granada Scientists from the research group CIBERFES and the University of Granada (UGR) have implemented a protocol for effectively detecting hypophosphatasia and have discovered two new genetic mutations associated with this disease, which is often confused with other bone ailments. Extrapolating the data from their study, published in Scientific Reports, they estimate that between...