New restrictions should be applied to widely used narcotic painkillers, because of an alarming increase in addiction and overdose deaths, an FDA Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee (The Panel) recommended. The Drug Safety Advisory Panel voted 19 to 10, recommending that drugs...
In an editorial published in The Lancet, UNC Lineberger member David Ollila, MD, and co-author John Thompson, MD, of the Melanoma Institute Australia, praise a new study on optimal margins for melanoma surgery but urge researchers to bring new molecular and genetic techniques to bear on the...
As the Assembly debates tuition fees today and the Executive nears a decision on whether to increase tuition fees, medical students have again urged MLAs not to increase fees. Neil Cunningham, chairman of the BMA's medical student committee in Northern Ireland said, "A rise in tuition fees will...
Rural doctors are urging more rural Australians to undertake a painless, at-home bowel cancer test to help reduce deaths by cancer. The call follows recent Cancer Council research which shows that although more than 80% of people aged 50 and over are aware of the simple, at-home screening...
MPs need to scrutinise really closely the thinking behind the Bill to abolish nearly 200 quangos, Unite, the largest union in the country, said last Friday. The call for MPs to think again as the details of the Public Bodies (Reform) Bill were released came from Unite Joint General Secretary...
Pennsylvanians are urged to turn in expired, unused and unwanted prescription medications at collection sites statewide during the first National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day on Saturday, Sept. 25, State Police and the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency said today. The day is an...
The Alabama Department of Public Health advises the public to be alert to the warning signals of heat illnesses. Between June and mid-August at least six persons ranging from preschool age to their 80s have been confirmed to have died from heat-related causes in Alabama. Heat-related illnesses...
The Hill: A medical device trade group and former lawmaker separately called on the White House to do more to promote life-saving medical innovation this week. "In separate events Wednesday and Thursday, former House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) and Stephen Ubl, the head of the medical...
As we are in the winter months older people in Ireland are being encouraged to look after their mental health and to seek help and support if they are feeling depressed most of the day, most days.
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