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Medicine Channels: Addiction, Drugs and Drug Abuse, Pain, Pharmaceuticals, Sports Medicine, Local - Illinois, Local - Chicago Metro, Medical Meetings Opioids, Acl Injuries, Opioid Addiction, American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine	Patients Taking Opioids Prior to ACL Surgery More Likely to Be on Pain Medications Longer Open in New Tab | View | Comment | Add to Favorites More than 130,000 Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgeries take place each year with the majority of patients not requiring pain medication after three months post-operatively. However, researchers presenting their work at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s Annual Meeting today in Toronto, Ontario, Canada found that those patients who were filling opioid prescriptions prior to surgery were 10 times more likely to be filling prescriptions five months after surgery.	Embargo expired: 22-Jul-2017 6:00 AM EDT Released: 18-Jul-2017 1:00 PM EDT American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM)
Medicine Science Channels: All Journal News, Cancer, Nanotechnology, Personalized Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Local - Illinois, Local - Chicago Metro quantitative biology, digital assays, assay design, data partitioning, nanotechnology, cancer, medicine, Drug Discovery And Development	Micro- and Nanotechnologies for Quantitative Biology and Medicine Open in New Tab | View | Comment | Add to Favorites AUDIO Ten new reviews and original research reports that illustrate how the progression of research assays from qualitative outputs toward increasingly sensitive quantitative outputs is transforming life sciences and biomedical research and diagnostics by improving the ability of researchers and clinicians to detect and quantify increasingly complex assays.	Released: 21-Jul-2017 1:05 AM EDT SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening)
Medicine Channels: Infectious Diseases, Pharmaceuticals, Nature (journal), All Journal News	EMBARGOED A reporter's PressPass is required to access this story until the embargo expires on 24-Jul-2017 11:00 AM EDT	Embargo will expire: 24-Jul-2017 11:00 AM EDT Released to reporters: 20-Jul-2017 3:05 PM EDT
Medicine Channels: Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals	Virginia Mason Installs Medication Disposal Boxes in Pharmacies Open in New Tab | View | Comment | Add to Favorites Two special drop boxes in which unwanted and expired medications can be safely discarded by the public are now located in the pharmacies at Buck Pavilion and Lindeman Pavilion on the Virginia Mason campus in Seattle’s First Hill neighborhood.	Released: 19-Jul-2017 4:05 PM EDT Virginia Mason Medical Center
Medicine Channels: Infectious Diseases, Pharmaceuticals	University of Rhode Island-Led Program First in Nation to Provide Treatment From Pharmacists That Could Prevent Lyme Disease Open in New Tab | View | Comment | Add to Favorites Pharmacists can dispense doxycycline without a doctor's order on site in their pharmacies to eligible customers who have had a tick bite. The protocol is only effective as prophylaxis against Lyme disease, not other tick-borne illnesses.	Released: 19-Jul-2017 2:05 PM EDT University of Rhode Island
Medicine Science Channels: Space, Chemistry, Pharmaceuticals	Farming Crystals in Space Open in New Tab | View | Add to Favorites Researchers grow protein crystals on the International Space Station to find antidotes for nerve agents used in conflict zones.	Released: 19-Jul-2017 11:05 AM EDT University of Utah Health
Medicine Channels: Genetics, Pharmaceuticals, Vision, All Journal News Generic Drug Use, Generic Drug, Ophthalmology, optometrist, Eye Care, Glaucoma, dry eye	A Switch to Generic Eye Drugs Could Save Medicare Millions Open in New Tab | View | Comment | Add to Favorites Eye care providers prescribe more brand medications by volume than any other provider group, according to a University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center study, making ophthalmologist and optometrists big influencers of annual prescription drug spending in the United States.	Released: 19-Jul-2017 8:00 AM EDT Michigan Medicine - University of Michigan
Medicine Science Channels: All Journal News, Biotech, Chemistry, Personalized Medicine, Pharmaceuticals, Local - Illinois, Local - Chicago Metro Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress, Unfolded Protein Response (UPR), Drug Discovery, life sciences research, Drug Screening	Control of the Unfolded Protein Response in Health and Disease Open in New Tab | View | Comment | Add to Favorites This new review in SLAS Discovery analyzes the recent literature and impact of unfolded protein response (UPR) in health and disease.	Released: 19-Jul-2017 1:05 AM EDT SLAS (Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening)
Medicine Channels: Healthcare, Pharmaceuticals Pharmacy, pharmacy education, Ethics, ethics codes, Medical Ethics	New Edition of Pharmacy Ethics Book Adds Studies on Health Insurance, Opioid Abuse Open in New Tab | View | Comment | Add to Favorites The third edition of Case Studies in Pharmacy Ethics (Oxford UP, 2017) takes on new questions arising out of the continuing evolution of health care delivery and explores the broad range of ethical issues that pharmacists encounter in practice.	Released: 18-Jul-2017 10:05 AM EDT Creighton University
Medicine Channels: Pharmaceuticals	HOPA Oncology Pharmacy Practice Management Program Open in New Tab | View | Comment | Add to Favorites Join experts in the field of pharmacy services management, and share expertise and practical solutions to the everyday challenges of providing top-of-the-line clinical care in a fiscally responsible manner.	Released: 17-Jul-2017 3:30 PM EDT Hematology Oncology Pharmacy Association