University joins NIH initiative to create diverse national biomedical data resource
As part of All of Us Research Program, School of Medicine will seek to enroll local participants By Julia Evangelou Strait Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has joined the All of Us Research Program, an initiative of the National Institutes...Opioid overdose reduced in patients taking buprenorphine
Study indicates the drug is effective in opioid users who also take benzodiazepines for anxiety, other conditions By Jim Dryden Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, opioid misuse has continued unabated in the United States, with an estimated 2.5 million or more...
Gene variant linked to smoking longer, getting lung cancer sooner
Smokers with a specific genetic variation are more likely to keep smoking longer than those who don’t have the gene variant, new research indicates.
Pro-marijuana ‘tweets’ are sky-high on Twitter
Researchers have found that the “Twitterverse” is a pot-friendly place.