by Massachusetts General Hospital Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Fentanyl is used to supplement sedation and to relieve severe pain during and after surgery, but it’s also one of the deadliest drugs of the opioid epidemic. In research conducted by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and published in PNAS Nexus, tests of the brain’s electrical activity revealed...
by Tom Rickey, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PNNL is expanding the library of data on known fentanyl variants, keeping first responders such as hazardous materials workers safe in the field. Credit: Gorodenkoff | Shutterstock.com While COVID has ruled the headlines for two years running, a different epidemic is claiming the lives of more than 100,000...
In a highly controversial move, the Food and Drug Administration approved an especially powerful opioid painkiller despite criticism that the medicine could be a “danger” to public health. And in doing so, the agency addressed wider regulatory thinking for endorsing such a medicine amid nationwide angst about overdoses and deaths attributed to opioids. FDA Commissioner Scott...
