Screening all adults for hepatitis C is a cost-effective way to improve clinical outcomes and identify more infected people compared to current recommendations, according to a new study.
When Opioids Make Pain Worse
An English physician in 1870 reported on morphine's tendency to "encourage the very pain it pretends to relieve." Researchers found that active heroin users were more sensitive to pain than expected. Other investigators took note, and by decade's end, a half-dozen studies had demonstrated similar results among heroin users as well as among recovering users on methadone.