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MONDAY, Aug. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Naloxone is a lifesaving antidote to an opioid overdose, but it may be priced too high for those most vulnerable to opioid-related death, a new study finds.Between 2014 and 2018, naloxone costs rose 500% for those without insurance, while out-of-pocket costs for the medication dropped 26% for people with insurance, the researchers reported.The insured were paying an average cost of $27 in 2014, but that dropped to $18 by 2018. For the uninsured, prices rose from $35 to $250, the investigators found. “Federal and state policies have regularly targeted legal barriers to accessing naloxone, with less emphasis on financial barriers,” said study author Evan Peet, an economist at RAND Corp., a nonprofit research organization. “These results...

MONDAY, Aug. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Whether the goal is bulging biceps or just a bit more strength and mass, a relatively light workout several times a week beats a more intense one done just once a week.That’s the conclusion of a small Australian study in which researchers spent a month tracking muscle-building progress among 36 college students.“We have shown that a very small amount of exercise is still effective to increase muscle strength,” as long as it's done frequently, said study author Ken Kazunori Nosaka, lead professor of exercise and sports science at Edith Cowan University in Joondalup, Australia.“So we hope,” he added, “that this would encourage people to start a daily exercise from a small amount. It is not difficult to find a time for daily...

MONDAY, Aug. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Workers who cleaned up the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico were more likely than others to have developed asthma or related symptoms, a long-term follow-up shows."This is the first study to ever look at specific chemicals from oil spills and link them to respiratory diseases," said study co-author Dale Sandler, of the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS). "If you were an oil spill cleanup worker in the gulf experiencing wheezing or other asthma-like symptoms, it would be good to let your health care provider know you worked on the oil spill," Sandler said in an agency news release.BP's Deepwater Horizon spill was the largest marine oil spill in U.S. history. The Gulf Long-Term Follow-up Study,...

MONDAY, Aug. 22, 2022 (HealthDay News) -- Smokers in the throes of nicotine withdrawal when they wake up in the morning may crave not just a cigarette but a cup of coffee along with it.Science can explain that.Researchers have identified two compounds in coffee that directly affect certain nicotine receptors in the brain.Study author Roger Papke, a pharmacology professor in the University of Florida College of Medicine, said he wondered why the two habits seemed to go hand in hand, similar to the way people enjoy both alcohol and tobacco in the evening."Many people look for coffee in the morning because of the caffeine. But was the coffee doing anything else to smokers? We wanted to know if there were other things in coffee that were affecting the brain's nicotine receptors," Papke...