Bill Offers Protection to Drug Overdose Witnesses

Bill offers protection to drug overdose witnesses
Fourteen other states have laws that protect witnesses to overdoses, passed in hopes of addressing what the Centers for Disease Control calls an “epidemic” level of drug deaths. The bill is the latest piece of legislation in … There were 1,909 deaths …
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DESTROYING CANCER: Gene therapy gets big wins against blood diseases
“What we are giving essentially is a living drug” — permanently altered cells that multiply in the body into an army to fight the cancer, said Dr. David Porter, a University of Pennsylvania scientist who led one study. Several drug and biotech …
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Pinpointing molecular path that makes antidepressants act quicker in mouse …
Julie Blendy, PhD, professor of Pharmacology, at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Brigitta Gunderson, PhD, a former postdoctoral fellow in the Blendy lab, and colleagues, have been working to find out why and if there is …
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