Hepatitis C Treatment's Side Effects Can Now Be Studied in the Lab

Hepatitis C Treatment's Side Effects Can Now Be Studied in the Lab

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"We know that antiviral drugs, including the ones used to treat HCV, affect even normal, healthy mitochondria by slowing ATP output," Arnold added. "While a person with normal mitochondria will experience some ATP and mitochondrial effects, a person …
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METH MAYHEM: Drug use growing in San Angelo

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Once meth offenders are arrested and convicted, it's up to the courts, drug-treatment facilities and probation departments to figure out what punishment makes sense. "With treatment in proper cases, we can hopefully reform and get somebody back as a …
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Report: Region tops nation for drug-tied ER visits

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For the past several years, slow economic growth and rising fixed costs for health care, pensions and other costs have increased competition for discretionary state spending, such as substance abuse treatment. Lawmakers in 2010 voted to apply the state …
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