We quantify this with the use of the term "half-life." The half-life of a given medication is how long it takes for the body to get rid of half of the dose. When the patient is taking a medication ...

Of these, 28 met the study criteria and had blood samples available that could be used to assess xylazine's half-life, which is the amount of time it takes for the blood concentration of a drug to ...

In a recently published article in the journal Nature Communications, researchers at Karolinska Institutet present results ...