A medication or treatment that counteracts a poison or its effects. An antidote may work by reducing or blocking the absorption of a poison from the stomach. It might counteract its effects directly, as in taking something to neutralize an acid. Or an...

An antidote is a medication or treatment that acts against a poison or its effects. An antidote may work by reducing the amount of poison that is absorbed from the stomach, or by blocking the absorption entirely. Some antidotes counteract a...

An antidote is a substance which can counteract a form of poisoning. Sometimes, the antidote for a particular toxin is manufactured by injecting the toxin into an animal in small doses and the resulting antibodies are extracted from the animals' blood....

The rest of Maine should listen carefully to the results of a meeting scheduled July 17 in Portland over whether supplying heroin addicts with an antidote to overdosing would reduce the number of drug deaths in that city. Whatever is decided on this issue...

One of the cable networks has been running a "Marython" the past few weeks -- several hours a night of reruns of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Dated as they are, they were a good antidote to the season's opener of "Murphy Brown," another...

Globalization: As anxiety rises about a looming recession, one way to head it off is through free trade. Long a bulwark against recession, the U.S. has four free trade pacts waiting to help. Why is Congress dithering?All eyes seem to be turned to the Federal...

The New Jersey Nets couldn't have asked for a better time to play the league-worst Memphis Grizzlies. Vince Carter scored 30 points and Mikki Moore added a career-high 24 to help the Nets beat the Grizzlies 113-102 Monday night, snapping a five-game losing streak.The Nets...