Health Highlights: Sept.16, 2022

September 16, 2022 by Ernie Mundell News 0 comments

Bariatric surgery can bring long-term benefits for pain, mobility. Seven years out, 43% of the roughly 1,500 patients enrolled in a new study said their joint pain remained noticeably lower than before surgery. Read more

Experts say new street drug is 'as deadly as fentanyl.' Drugs called nitazenes are being added to the illicit opioid supply and triggering a new surge in fatal overdoses, health officials and the DEA say. Read more

WHO updates COVID treatment guidelines. In a change, the World Health Organization now recommends against using the antibody drugs sotrovimab and casirivimab-imdevimab for patients with COVID-19. Read more

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