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Study first to pinpoint why analgesic drugs may be less potent in females than in males

Investigators at Georgia State University's Neuroscience Institute and Center for Behavioral Neuroscience are the first to identify the most likely reason analgesic drug treatment is usually less potent in females than males. ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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What is the effect of fluoxetine on mast cell?

Mast cells are now recognized as "granular cells of the connective tissue", whose activation exacerbates allergic immune responses and as key players in the establishment of innate immunity as well as modulators of adaptive ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Homelessness is not just a housing problem

The editorial in this month's PLoS Medicine examines how the health needs of the homeless are underrepresented in the medical literature, leading to the failure of health and social systems to address them. At a time when c ...

Medicine & Health / Health

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