The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services recently issued a guidance warning about the dangers of opioid-induced respiratory depression (“OIRD”) and required the following actions be taken: Timely ...
This head-to-head pharmacodynamic study in healthy volunteers examined the ability of both OPVEE and intranasal naloxone to reverse opioid-induced respiratory depression, which is the shallow and slow ...
Nearly 75 percent of hospitalized patients receiving opioids for pain management are not monitored according to hospital guidelines. A study led by University at Buffalo nursing researcher Carla ...
Respiratory depression has been associated with the use of opioid analgesics. However, a recent study by researchers at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita, Kan., suggests exhaled CO2 monitoring of ...
MURRAY — Parker Stewart was a 21-year-old newlywed in 2016 when he died in his sleep three days after a routine tonsillectomy. He had been prescribed an opioid to help manage his post-operation pain ...
Is there a safe opioid? Scientists discovered DFNZ, a high-potency nitazene that relieves pain without the risk of overdose ...
RED BANK, NJ / ACCESS Newswire / August 20, 2025 / Tharimmune, Inc. (Nasdaq:THAR) ("Tharimmune" or the "Company"), a clinical-stage biotechnology company dedicated to developing innovative therapeutic ...
Naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote, is a powerful tool in the overdose crisis, allowing friends, loved ones and even bystanders a way to put a fatal overdose in reverse and bring back breathing.
A novel mu-opioid receptor agonist showed strong analgesia without respiratory depression, tolerance, or significant ...
Brixadi (buprenorphine) is a brand-name injection that’s prescribed for opioid use disorder. As with other drugs, Brixadi can cause side effects, such as injection site reactions and respiratory ...