Legal, Regulated Heroin Could Have Saved Philip Seymour Hoffman

Published February 18, 2014

Legal, Regulated Heroin Could Have Saved Philip Seymour Hoffman
According to the Center for Disease Control, “opioid analgesics, such as oxycodone, hydrocodone, and methadone, were involved in about 3 of every 4 pharmaceutical overdose deaths” and “38,329 people died from a drug overdose in the United States in …
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FDA approves Vimizim for Morquio A syndrome
… priority review voucher underscores the agency's commitment to making treatments available to patients with rare diseases,” Andrew E. Mulberg, MD, deputy director of the division of gastroenterology and inborn errors products in the FDA's Center …
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Ambulance magnesium failed to improve stroke outcomes
Despite this finding, Jeffrey L. Saver, MD, director of stroke neurology at the UCLA Stroke Center, said the Field Administration of Stroke Therapy – Magnesium (FAST-MAG) study is the first phase 3 trial of a stroke treatment within 1 hour of onset and …
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