Vertex Pharma could be close to succeeding in the long-standing quest to find an alternative to potentially addictive opioids for the treatment of pain associated with common medical procedures.

Objective: The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the psychomotor effects of mexazolam versus placebo in patients with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD). Patients and methods: This was a ...

ABSTRACT: Background: Generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) is common and can negatively impact people’s wellbeing and functioning. GAD treatment includes psychotherapy and/or anti-anxiety medication, ...

With Friday’s (January 17) move, Biden has granted more individual pardons and commutations than any previous president. President Joe Biden, who’s set to leave office next week as Donald ...

Swiss start-up Haya Therapeutics has formed a partnership with Eli Lilly – worth up to $1 billion – to look for new therapies for obesity in non-coding DNA. The biotech focuses on trawling the ...

President Joe Biden is granting clemency for nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in his final days in office, placing a focus on sentencing disparities for crack cocaine-related crimes.

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US President Joe Biden announced Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of non-violent drug offences, using his final days in office on a flurry of clemency ...

President Joe Biden will commute the sentences of nearly 2,500 non-violent drug offenders in one of his final official actions before leaving office. The people receiving the commutations have ...

Disturbed sleep is a prominent feature of fibromyalgia symptomatology and has been proposed as one of the core symptoms that should be systematically assessed in clinical trials for the treatment ...

The news comes after the outgoing president commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 federal death row inmates in December. The president's changed perspective over his decades as an elected official ...

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