West Africa should decriminalise drugs - Obasanjo commission BBC News Low-level drug offences should be decriminalised in West Africa, according to a high-level report. | The West Africa Commission on Drugs says drug cartels are undermining the region by using it to transit cocaine. | The commission, headed by former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, says the cart...
99.6% of new Alzheimer's drugs fail to be approved WorldNetDaily (VegasInc) Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health have a grim message to share with the public: We’re not doing enough to develop drugs to battle Alzheimer’s disease. | The center set out this year to analyze all...
Goodbye Irish Medicines Board . . . but hello to Health Products Regulatory Agency The Irish Times At least 50 per cent of prescription medicines bought over the internet are counterfeit. The figure comes from Pat O’Mahony, chief executive of what was till this week the Irish Medicines Board. | The agency has now rebranded as the Health Products...
Students get a taste of medicine Stuff Teenagers keen on careers in medicine were given a firsthand look at what it's like to work at a hospital this week. | Year 13 students from Geraldine High School and Timaru Boys' High School toured Timaru Hospital and the travelling lithotripter bus...
Substandard drugs supplied to govt hospitals in Bihar The Times Of India PATNA: Medicines that failed quality tests were supplied by Bihar Medical Services and Infrastructure Corporation Limited (BMSICL), the nodal agency to supply drugs and equipment to government hospitals in Bihar. BMSICL was established last year as p...
AFL chief medico reveals league had to retire three players due to drug addiction The Australian AFL chief medico Dr Peter Harcourt has made the dramatic admission the league was forced to “retire” three players for drug addiction. | Three other AFL stars had to “temporarily withdraw” from playing because of their illicit...
US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention staff exposed to anthrax South China Morning Post As many as 75 scientists and staff in US government laboratories in Atlanta may have been exposed to live anthrax bacteria after researchers failed to... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class James R. Evans)
