Pharmacy

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What Are Nitazenes—and Why They Scare Experts More Than Fentanyl Health

What Are Nitazenes—and Why They Scare Experts More Than Fentanyl

Nitazenes are a class of synthetic opioids first created in the 1950s that can be up to 40 times more potent than fentanyl. Never approved for medical...

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How Pharmacy Benefit Managers Work—and Why Drug Prices Rise Health

How Pharmacy Benefit Managers Work—and Why Drug Prices Rise

Pharmacy benefit managers negotiate drug prices for 275 million Americans, yet critics say their opaque rebate and spread-pricing practices help drive...

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How CAR T-Cell Therapy Works—Reprogramming Immunity Health

How CAR T-Cell Therapy Works—Reprogramming Immunity

CAR T-cell therapy genetically engineers a patient's own immune cells to hunt and destroy cancer. Once limited to blood cancers, it is now expanding i...

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How RNAi Drugs Work—Silencing Genes to Treat Disease Science

How RNAi Drugs Work—Silencing Genes to Treat Disease

RNA interference drugs use tiny molecules to silence disease-causing genes before they can produce harmful proteins, offering long-lasting treatments...

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What Is Glioblastoma—and Why Is It So Hard to Treat? Health

What Is Glioblastoma—and Why Is It So Hard to Treat?

Glioblastoma is the most aggressive brain cancer, with a median survival of just 15 months. Here's how it grows, why the blood-brain barrier blocks tr...

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How Cell-Free Biomanufacturing Works—No Cells Required Science

How Cell-Free Biomanufacturing Works—No Cells Required

Cell-free biomanufacturing produces proteins, vaccines, and chemicals using cellular machinery extracted from disrupted cells—no living organisms need...

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What Are Gasotransmitters and How They Signal in Your Body Science

What Are Gasotransmitters and How They Signal in Your Body

Your cells produce three toxic gases—nitric oxide, carbon monoxide, and hydrogen sulfide—that double as vital signaling molecules regulating blood pre...

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How HPV Self-Testing Works—and Why It Could Save Lives Health

How HPV Self-Testing Works—and Why It Could Save Lives

HPV self-collection lets people screen for cervical cancer at home using a simple swab. Here's how the technology works, who it helps, and why experts...

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How the FDA Approves AI Medical Devices Technology

How the FDA Approves AI Medical Devices

The FDA has authorized over 1,400 AI-enabled medical devices, from radiology scanners to smartwatch heart monitors. Here is how the approval process w...

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How Clinical Trials Work—From Lab to Pharmacy Health

How Clinical Trials Work—From Lab to Pharmacy

Clinical trials are the rigorous, multi-phase process every new drug must survive before reaching patients. Here is how the system works, why it takes...

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How Male Birth Control Works—and Why It Took So Long Science

How Male Birth Control Works—and Why It Took So Long

After decades of false starts, male contraceptives are finally reaching clinical trials. Here's how the leading candidates work, the biological hurdle...

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How the Brain's Chronic Pain Circuit Works Science

How the Brain's Chronic Pain Circuit Works

Scientists have mapped a dedicated brain circuit that drives chronic pain separately from acute pain, opening the door to targeted treatments that cou...

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