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Weekly Calendar – April 4
DINWIDDIE – Al-Anon Family Groups for family and friends of alcoholics meets from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. each Friday at Kenwood United Methodist Church, 25200 Ritchie Ave., Petersburg. For more information, call 733-7395. COLONIAL HEIGHTS … COLONIAL …
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FDA OK's Injector Device to Counter Drug Overdoses
FDA OK's injector device to counter drug overdoses
While highly effective, naloxone might prove tricky for consumers to administer. “It puts a person into sudden, acute withdrawal so they can become agitated and combative,” said Dr. Steven Kassels, medical director of Community Substance Abuse Centers, …
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Study shows important parallels between epidemic of HIV/AIDS and opioid …
These are the findings of a comparative review of HIV/AIDS and addiction by researchers Josiah D. Rich, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights, based at The Miriam Hospital; Traci C. Green, Ph.D., MSc, Department of …
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Fertility Drugs Not Tied to Long Term Breast Cancer Risk
Fertility drugs not tied to long term breast cancer risk
Previous studies have raised concerns over the drugs because women are exposed to higher levels of estrogen during fertility treatments. Extended exposure to … SOURCE: bit.ly/1dS3oqO Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, online April 3, 2014.
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FDA permits Curis to resume testing for experimental breast cancer drug
The FDA ordered the halt following the death a patient with advanced breast cancer who suffered liver failure a month after discontinuing treatment with Curis' drug, CUDC-427. The drug is designed to neutralize major inhibitors of apoptosis or …
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ProPublica Goes After the Wrong Man in Its 'Dollars for Docs' Crusade
ProPublica Goes After The Wrong Man In Its 'Dollars For Docs' Crusade
One of Golan's more influential studies, published in the top-shelf journal Annals of Internal Medicine, recommended a drug transitioning to generic, fluconazole, instead of a newer more expensive agent, caspofungin, when ICU patients are thought to be …
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Federal Gov't Proposes Risk-Based Health IT Regulatory Framework
Instead, the draft report recommends relying on ONC and private-sector efforts to highlight quality management, industry standards and best practices. The draft report also proposes incorporating testing, certification and accreditation processes for …
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Medical Pot Dispensary Coming to Bridgeport
Medical pot dispensary coming to Bridgeport
… city proposed by two Trumbull women. These fledgling dispensaries will be able to offer patients suffering from debilitating illnesses a smorgasbord of ways to imbibe the drug, from the raw vegetative form to oils, extracts, capsules, and …
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UPDATE 2-US OKs portable antidote for painkiller overdoses
WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) – U.S. regulators on Thursday approved a portable device to treat painkiller overdoses that people without medical training can use in emergency situations, a move to combat the rise of deaths from the abuse of opioids …
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