Cancer drugs can cause diabetes

And no one knows why. “Roughly 1% of patients receiving immunotherapy drugs experience the same irreversible side effect” — type 1 diabetes.

Convention is almost here!

What are you waiting for? The Georgia Pharmacy Convention is only about two weeks away!

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Get ready to rumble

In this corner (after Purdue and Teva settled), Johnson and Johnson — maker of the Duragesic fentanyl patch.

In this corner, the state of Oklahoma* “a state brought to its knees by addiction and overdose deaths” contending that J&J and its marketing is responsible for the opioid epidemic.

It’s the trial of the century!

Obesity/diabetes disconnect

It’s a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma. Or just a little odd: “The number of new diabetes cases among U.S. adults keeps falling, even as obesity rates climb, and health officials aren’t sure why.”

You can dance if you want to (but you might run into FDA problems)

FDA inspectors toured an Indian drugmaker’s facility last October, and wasn’t impressed. The agency found enough problems to place the company (Centurion) on “import alert.”

One of the issues was cleanliness — or the lack thereof. The company’s excuse? A nine-day dance festival meant a shortage of employees to do the cleaning.

Anxiety and allergies

A study out of Germany finds that people who are anxious are more likely to suffer from seasonal allergies: “There was a positive correlation between perennial allergies and depression or depressive episodes.”

But when it comes to causation and correlation, it’s not clear. Do allergies make depression more likely, or does being depressed increase your chances of allergies?

The long read: CBD / opioids crossover episode

“CBD: The next weapon in the war against opioid addiction?” from The Conversation.

Medical shocker

Drinking a quart of energy drink in an hour can be bad for your heart. (Aka, “Impact of High Volume Energy Drink Consumption on Electrocardiographic and Blood Pressure Parameters.”)