Clinic accused of reusing syringes sued (AP)
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The suit comes a day after the Southern Nevada Health District announced that unsafe practices at the clinic may have led to six reported cases of hepatitis C, a potentially fatal blood-borne virus.
Another 40,000 people who received anesthesia at the Endoscopy Center of Southern Nevada between March 2004 and January 2008 are being urged to be tested for hepatitis, strains C and B, and HIV.
“I feel like a ticking time bomb.
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Generics damp 2007 drug costs: Express Scripts (Reuters)
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Total spending on prescription drugs in 2007 grew 4.7 percent, according to Express Scripts, one of the largest U.S.
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The UK Government’s New Drug Strategy: (or Spin?)
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The governments ‘new’ drug strategy has caused a blended reaction. Some mild some vehement; others have reacted with cautious enthusiasm, and a few with cynicism.
The majority who have commented have their own agenda’s. The pro-druggists are professing that the ‘rights’ of users are essence ignored and that drug related wickedness will soar. The ‘hang em’ and ‘flog em’ brigade demise be disappointed that there is no provision with regard to users to be taken out and shot at dawn.
This scrivener is appalled and baffled for the simple sense that in all sixty eight pages of the strategy there is not any acknowledgement that both substance misuse and dependency are universally recognised viewed like mental disorders. (Read the full post about ‘The UK Government’s New Drug Strategy: (or Spin?)’…)
Common Hypertension Drug Found To Reduce Cocaine Cravings
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School have found that diltiazem, a drug used in the treatment of profound blood pressure, reduces cocaine cravings in a rat model. These findings will appear in the March issue of the leading medical journal Nature Neuroscience.
Previous work showed that two brain chemicals, dopamine and glutamate, independently give to the development of cocaine addiction. (Read the full post about ‘Common Hypertension Drug Found To Reduce Cocaine Cravings’…)
FDA examines how it tells of food and drug risks (Reuters)
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"How we give the sort of we do is as important as what it is we are doing," Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach told the first meeting of a new advisory panel adhering communication of risks.
"Quite candidly, if one looks at external data there has been an erosion of trust.
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Princeton Researchers Peek Into Deepest Recesses Of Human Brain
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A team of scientists from Princeton University has devised a new experimental technique that produces some of the best functional images ever taken of the human brainstem, the most primitive area of the brain.
The scientists believe they may be opening the door to inquiries into a region that acts as the staging area for the brain chemicals whose overabundance or absence in other parts of the brain are at the root of many neuropsychiatric disorders, be pleased with addiction, schizophrenia and Parkinson’s disease.
Reporting in the Feb. 28 issue of Science, the scientists describe using functional magnetic resonance imaging to study brainstem activity in dehydrated humans. (Read the full post about ‘Princeton Researchers Peek Into Deepest Recesses Of Human Brain’…)
Study Recommends That ‘Tweens’ Alcohol Prevention Programs Occur As Early As Third Grade
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A study by the University of Minnesota School of Public Health and the University of Florida suggests that ‘tweens’ should receive alcohol prevention programs prior to sixth grade, when nearly one in six children are already alcohol users.
The study place that adolescents who already use alcohol are less receptive to prevention programs aimed at all students. Intervening at earlier ages, specifically between third and fifth grade, would allow for truly universal anti-alcohol messages that would furthermore provide support for high-risk students. (Read the full post about ‘Study Recommends That ‘Tweens’ Alcohol Prevention Programs Occur As Early As Third Grade’…)
ADB says transport spending may increase AIDS in Asia (AFP)
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UN Agencies Unite Against Female Genital Mutilation
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Expressing their commitment to the elimination of female genital mutilation, moreover called female genital cutting and female genital mutilation/cutting, 10 United Nations agencies pledged in a statement to support governments, communities, and women and girls to abandon the practice within a generation, with a major reduction in many countries by 2015, the year the Millennium Development Goals are set to be achieved.
Female genital mutilation violates the rights of women and girls to health, protection and even life like the management sometimes results in death.
As the statement indicates, although decades of work by local communities, government, and national and international organizations have contributed to reducing the prevalence of female genital mutilation in many areas, the acting out remains wide spread. (Read the full post about ‘UN Agencies Unite Against Female Genital Mutilation’…)
Researchers at the Joslin Diabetes Center studied 38 Hispanic youngsters, aged 10 to 18.
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