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Washington [US], June 12 (ANI): According to a new study, vitamin D deficiency strongly exaggerates the craving for and effects of opioids, potentially increasing the risk for dependence and addiction.
Lab animals deficient in vitamin D crave and become dependent on opioids, which is curbed when normal levels of the vitamin are restored. Human health records indicate that people with low vitamin D are more likely to use and misuse opioids. Study results suggest a potential role for vitamin D supplementation in fighting opioid addiction.
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New research has tested the benefits of a diabetes drug in combination with chemotherapy against skin cancer. SUNG KWON/Getty Images
In the 1950s, doctors prescribed a drug called phenformin to people with type 2 diabetes. A safer alternative, metformin, is now in more common use.
Both drugs have shown promise as anticancer agents in laboratory studies, but phenformin appears to be more potent.
Researchers are now testing a combination of phenformin and chemotherapy drugs in people with a type of skin cancer.
Galega officinalis) to people with excessive urination, or polyuria, which we now know to be a symptom of type 2 diabetes.