Antidotes provide a direct way to counteract acute adverse effects of a drug; for example, protamine can be used to combat bleeding due to administration of the anticoagulant heparin. However ...

The ‘miracle drug’ is thought to be one factor behind the recent decline in overdoses in North America, and could save more people if it was better understood ...

The first human trial of a new type of dirty-bomb-antidote pill, designed to remove harmful radioactive contamination from the body, is starting in the US. The drug, HOPO 14-1, is thought to work ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved regimen of fomepizole is an i.v. loading dose of 15 mg/kg over 30 minutes followed by a dose of 10 mg/kg every 12 hours, with the frequency of ...