Abstract and Introduction
Abstract and Introduction
Because the same drug is sometimes utilized for IPTi and for symptomatic malaria treatment, distinguishing their individual roles on accelerating the spread of drug resistant malaria, with or without human movement, may be difficult to isolate … Read more on Medscape
A widespread scourge
… Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania — to share information that helps authorities track down and prosecute heroin traffickers reflects a growing concern among state officials over the recent rise in overdose deaths from the … Read more on Baltimore Sun
Public Release: 22-Jan-2015 Revolutionary Device Found to Lower Blood Pressure
Public Release: 22-Jan-2015 Revolutionary device found to lower blood pressure
A revolutionary device has been shown to significantly lower blood pressure among patients with uncontrolled high blood pressure, compared to those treated with usual drug measures – according to research from Queen Mary University of London and … Read more on EurekAlert (press release)
Tenderloin Police Recognize Glide Memorial's Hep-C, HIV Program Manager …
I benefited from the UK education system by getting a scholarship that paid me to go to university in London. I found this to be an excellent experience … I worked the crisis line at Release, and while I was not one to swallow the media generated … Read more on Fog City Journal
Happy Sue Year, a-Rod! Yankee Being Sued by Ex's Brother
Happy Sue Year, A-Rod! Yankee being sued by ex's brother
It's a new year, but the refrain is the same for Alex Rodriguez: more legal woes. The disgraced slugger ? who is trying to make a comeback with the Yankees after a season-long doping ban even as he could find himself called as a witness in the … Read more on New York Daily News
Opiate addicts struggle to escape addiction
Inpatient rehabilitation for a month or more used to be standard practice for drug addicts and alcoholics. "I can remember facilitating an admission to a rehab by only having documentation that the individual had insurance," said Donald J. McHenry , a … Read more on Insurance News Net
Dallas Taylor Dies at 66; Drummer for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Dallas Taylor dies at 66; drummer for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Dallas Taylor liked to say that he made his first million — and his last million — by the time he was 21. The rock drummer was a key sideman for Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. He played at Woodstock, appeared on seven top-selling albums and bought … Read more on Los Angeles Times
Just What Veteran 'Research' Goes On At Yale Affiliated West Haven VA?
These include the Eastern Blind Rehabilitation Center, the Single PhotoEmission Computer Tomography (SPECT) – which provides state of the art imaging for medical care and research in biology, psychiatry, cardiology and oncology – and the VA/Yale … Read more on DisabledVeterans.org
Texas Juvenile Justice Reformers Take a Victory Lap
Texas Juvenile Justice Reformers Take A Victory Lap
At a press conference at the Texas Supreme Court Thursday morning, Mike Thompson, director of the Council of State Governments' Justice Center, suggested Texas' political leaders could indulge in a little self-congratulation. … Researchers studied … Read more on The Texas Observer
Why testosterone is the drug of the future
Testosterone is not just any drug. It's not nitrous oxide out of a balloon at a Phish show or a little weed in a brownie. “T,” (as it is known) is, by most accounts, as close to a direct anti-aging medication as science has yet produced. It can be … Read more on Fusion
When San Francisco Stopped Prosecuting Drug Users, Violent Crime Went …
When San Francisco Stopped Prosecuting Drug Users, Violent Crime Went …
Suhr is following in the footsteps of his predecessor, George Gascon, who is now District Attorney in the city and who began the process of de-emphasizing drug enforcement in the midst of cutbacks to the police force in the wake of the 2007 recession. Read more on Reason (blog)
Ann Arbor's 'other' college football program
The brand of pigskin they play at Michigan is one of full scholarships and bowl games, of 109,000-seat stadiums and their $ 226-million renovations. Ann Arbor's hidden college football program — the … He's interested in attending the Detroit Police … Read more on The Michigan Daily
Former Drug Addicts Family Brings Help to Families in Northern Illinois
Former drug addicts family brings help to families in Northern Illinois
By age 21, Tyler's parents got him into a treatment center in Wisconsin. "When I was in treatment for my substance abuse my parents and my sister sat down and tried to figure out what they could do to help other families not go through the same things … Read more on WREX-TV
NIH teams with industry to develop treatments for Niemann-Pick Type C disease
Vtesse will support the ongoing phase I clinical trial for NPC at the NIH Clinical Center, led by NICHD researchers who have been evaluating the safety of the drug cyclodextrin. Vtesse also plans to collaborate with NICHD to … The use of cyclodextrin … Read more on National Institutes of Health (press release)