Sentences with phrase «expanded use of medications»
The commentary calls upon health care providers to expand their use of medications to treat opioid addiction and reduce overdose deaths, and describes a number of misperceptions that have limited access to these potentially life - saving medications.
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U.S. Health & Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell last year proposed a response, calling for a program to change doctors» opioid prescribing practices, to expand the use of naloxone, a drug used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdoses, and increase patient access to medication assisted treatments for opioid use disorders.
«Expanding the use of a well - studied, safe medication to improve lung development before birth offers a means of preventing many of these complications.»
As a result of the trial's findings, which confirm and expand on a recently published large clinical trial using the same software to inform treatment decision - making, thrombectomy procedures for late - arriving patients will probably double, said Albers, and this also opens up the prospect of using clot - busting medications well beyond the current 4.5 - hour window.