We Could Soon Have Vaccines for Cancer, HIV Thanks to COVID-19 Vaccine

Scientists discovered the technology that fuels COVID-19 vaccines 25 years ago. Now they want to use it to prevent other life-threatening illnesses.
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A New Opioid Law That Never Mentions The Legal Impact on Legitimate Pain Patients, Only The Impact on Addicts . “Opioid legislation is ‘historic in its breadth’

New bipartisan opioid legislation is clear progress in America’s fight against an ongoing opioid epidemic, experts told Yahoo Finance.
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Spinal-cord stimulators help some patients, injure others

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Desperate for relief after years of agony, Jim Taft listened intently as his pain management doctor described a medical device that could change his life. It wouldn’t fix the nerve damage in his mangled right arm, Taft and his wife recalled the doctor saying, but a spinal-cord stimulator would cloak his pain, making him “good as new.” Taft’s stimulator failed soon after it was surgically implanted. After an operation to repair it, he said, the device shocked him so many times that he couldn’t sleep and even fell down a flight of stairs. Today, the 45-year-old Taft is virtually paralyzed, a prisoner in his own bed, barely able to get to the bathroom by himself.
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Treatment Resistant Depression or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome? Child Psychiatrist Finds Success With Antivirals – Simmaron Research

Dr. Theodore Henderson proposes many adolescents diagnosed with treatment resistant depression actually have Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
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FDA Approves Controversial New Opioid 10 Times More Powerful Than Fentanyl – Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understanding of the world and shape our lives.
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