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Nearly 15% of School-Age Children in U.S. Have Received Mental Health Treatment

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, June 13, 2023 -- About one in every seven American kids aged 5 to 17 underwent some form of mental health treatment in 2021, the latest year for which statistics are available. So finds a new report from researchers at the U.S. Centers for.

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Nursing Homes Used COVID Meds Less Than Expected During Pandemic

Drugs.com

TUESDAY, July 18, 2023 -- While nursing home residents are at high risk for bad outcomes if they get COVID-19, use of antiviral treatments, such as monoclonal antibodies, was low through most of 2021 and 2022. The authors of a new study, led by.

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One in five women become pregnant naturally after having a baby conceived with IVF

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

New research analyzed data from 11 studies of over 5,000 women around the world between 1980 and 2021, to evaluate how common it is to get pregnant naturally after having a baby conceived by fertility treatment.

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Transforming cancer treatment for greatest impact

Drug Target Review

Could you provide insights into the driving factors behind exploring novel treatments for cancer types? Could you provide further details on how this phenomenon could impact broader treatment outcomes? What aspects prompted this research direction? The concept of the ‘abscopal effect’ in the 4T1 tumour model is intriguing.

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FDA Advisory Committee Review of 2021

Eye on FDA

One meeting of the Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee is set for February 10 to discuss a new application for the proposed treatment of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC. But before heading into 2022, it is perhaps time to take stock of AdComms and what they did or did not do during 2021. Fewer Meetings.

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What They Said – FDA Press Releases Mid-2021

Eye on FDA

But here is what we see looking at the first 6 months 2021, and comparing it to mid-years past. Last year the agency issued over 400 releases on a range of topics (65 percent of releases were related to COVID-190. Of the 153, only 33 of them were translated into Spanish.

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Advancing reduction of drug use as an endpoint in addiction treatment trials

National Institute on Drug Abuse: Nora's Blog

Advancing reduction of drug use as an endpoint in addiction treatment trials astewart Thu, 03/06/2025 - 09:59 Nora's Blog March 18, 2025 Image Getty Images/ SolStock This blog was also published in the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) Weekly on March 18, 2025.&