Take away medication for anger issues, add a bad day at work, and behold - the formula for what authorities contend was a potentially deadly case of road rage.
GREENVILLE, S.C. - Veronica Barnes is learning how to feed her son through a tube, to administer his medication and suction the airway in his throat. She is learning these things in case she can't find a nursing facility back home in Ohio that will take him.
Panamanian authorities say they suspect a medicine taken to treat high blood pressure may be among the factors leading to the deaths of 21 people since July who have succumbed to a mysterious illness that triggers kidney failure.
Cheaper medication is now just across the border. Starting this week you can fill your prescriptions in Canada without having them confiscated by customs.
Olathe police are looking for an 18-month-old boy who is missing and in need of medical care. Ayden R. Noe was last seen Sunday afternoon when his father Coty R. Noe, 21, took him to the store and never returned. Police are concerned because the man left in a distraught state without Ayden’s medication. The child is asthmatic and needs treatment several times daily.
Kentucky's racing regulators are likely to start their own stable -- of sorts -- in a national effort to help trainers know when to stop administering therapeutic medications to their horses. Rather than competing, the goal of the stable would be to have 20 horses in training for testing purposes. From the testing, guidelines would be developed to tell horsemen and veterinarians when to stop
The Childrens Hospital of Omaha has recently gone live with Eclipsys Sunrise Pharmacy medication management system to improve patient safety within its pediatric care environment.
Patients who have had bariatric surgery need to take special steps to make sure they are absorbing their medications and nutrients, according to a study published today in the October 1, 2006, edition of the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (Am J Health Syst Pharm 2006 63: 1852-1857).Authors April D. Miller, Pharm.D, of University of Kentucky HealthCare, and Kelly M. Smith, Pharm.D.
It has been proven that plastic surgery can improve self-esteem, but can it also act as a natural mood enhancer? A significant number of patients stopped taking antidepressant medication after undergoing plastic surgery, according to a study presented at the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) Plastic Surgery 2006 conference in San Francisco. [click link for full article]