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A person dies of opioid overdose once every 13 minutes in the US. A researcher proposes a way using existing technology to remove the opioid target in people to prevent overdoses.
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Gyms have gone mad for these bits of neoprene. Yet researchers are still scrambling to catch up.
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All the guidelines recommend paracetamol for pain relief despite the lack of evidence for the drug’s effectiveness.
Though the codeine we take today is made synthetically, small amounts of codeine are actually found in the opium poppy.
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About 8% of the population is unable to metabolise codeine, and a small number metabolise it at a much larger extent.
Paracetamol has been found to be no more effective than a placebo for low back pain and arthritis.
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Paracetamol is one of the most widely used medicines in Australia and around the world with millions of doses administered worldwide each day.