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Health knowledge made personal
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California adopts stricter rules for drug abusers in the health industry (Los Angeles Times)
Thu Nov 19 23:31:57 PST 2009
Nurses, dentists and other professionals with addictions will be subject to more drug tests, and any restrictions to their licenses will be listed on public websites. In a major shift, California will impose tough new standards on drug-abusing health professionals, strictly scrutinizing those in...
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Iowa City woman graduates from new drug treatment program (The Gazette)
Wed Nov 18 18:29:03 PST 2009
9 years ago Sarah Stoppelmoor was a wife, a mother, and a business owner. Then her cocaine addiction took over. She said at one point she even turned to living in a van before finally being caught for committing forgery to fund her drug habit. Now clean for 989 days and counting. Stoppelmoor, 44,...
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Janet Jackson knew of her brother's drug addiction (TVNZ)
Thu Nov 19 10:23:19 PST 2009
Janet Jackson has revealed that she knew of her brother Michael Jackson's dependency on prescription drugs and even staged an intervention to tackle the problem
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Diggers returning home as drug addicts (Adelaide Now)
Sat Nov 21 05:01:00 PST 2009
AUSTRALIAN troops are using cocaine, heroin and other hard drugs while on tours of duty.
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California issues strict rules for health professionals with addiction problems (News-Medical-Net)
Fri Nov 20 07:57:28 PST 2009
News outlets report on a variety of health issues at the state level including stricter rules for drug abusers in the health industry in California, an examination of the nation's first city-run universal health care plan in San Francisco, a cigarette tax in Florida, sex offenders and ex-convicts...
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Vaccine To Treat Nicotine Addiction Steps Closer To Market As Companies Agree Option Deal (Medical News Today)
Wed Nov 18 05:26:29 PST 2009
An experimental vaccine called NicVAX, designed to treat nicotine addiction that works by stopping the drug from reaching the brain, moved a step closer to the market when the vaccine developer Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (Nabi), based in Rockville, Maryland, US agreed an option and licensing deal...
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Community sees rise in drug abuse (The Wooster Voice)
Thu Nov 19 23:51:48 PST 2009
Recently local law enforcement officials have begun to play witness to an alarming new trend — the steady rise of illegal substance abuse. According to David Smith, the director of the Medway Drug Enforcement Agency, heroin use in Wooster and the surrounding communities has increased by...
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Drug studied as possible treatment for spinal injuries (PhysOrg)
Thu Nov 19 10:24:39 PST 2009
Researchers have shown how an experimental drug might restore the function of nerves damaged in spinal cord injuries by preventing short circuits caused when tiny "potassium channels" in the fibers are exposed.
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ICT fails to accelerate drug approvals (PhysOrg)
Thu Nov 19 07:54:49 PST 2009
Drug approvals are taking just as long as they ever did despite increased expenditure on new information technology at the Food and drug Administration. So says a statistical analysis of approval intervals from 1997 to 2006, published in the International Journal of Electronic Healthcare.
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Students get heads-up about drug addiction (The Times of Trenton)
Mon Nov 16 22:56:10 PST 2009
HAMILTON -- The Philadelphia Police Department's drug-prevention program, Heads Up, recently gave a shock-and-awe presentation about the real-life perils of drug-and-alcohol abuse to students at the Trenton Catholic Academy.
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