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News 2007-06-13T05:50:00+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/kevorkian-freed-after-years-in-prison-for-aiding-suicide/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/kevorkian-freed-after-years-in-prison-for-aiding-suicide/#When:08:27:00Z CHICAGO, June 1 Jack Kevorkian, the former pathologist who brought the debate over physician-assisted suicide into the national spotlight a decade ago, saying he had helped 130 terminally ill people in their deaths, stepped out of a Michigan prison on Friday having pledged not to assist anyone else. Mr. Kevorkian, 79, looked slightly frailer than he had when he was sent to prison eight years ago, convicted of second-degree murder in one death. One in a long list of conditions Mr. Kevorkian agreed to as part of a two-year period of parole, Michigan prison officials said, was not to participate in future suicides. News 2007-06-02T08:27:00+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/fda-seeks-strong-warning-for-mri-contrast-agents/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/fda-seeks-strong-warning-for-mri-contrast-agents/#When:22:19:00Z 23.05.07 WASHINGTON (MarketWatch)—The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it is asking manufacturers of certain contrast agents used in patients undergoing magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI scans, to place a black-box warning on the agents’ packaging. News 2007-05-23T22:19:00+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/ohio-doctor-indicted-in-drug-deaths/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/ohio-doctor-indicted-in-drug-deaths/#When:22:15:00Z 22.05.07 A doctor and two office managers have been charged with illegally distributing excessive amounts of a powerful painkiller and other drugs, leading to the deaths of at least 14 people, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. A grand jury returned an indictment that was unsealed Tuesday against Dr. Paul Volkman, 60, Denise Huffman, 54, and her daughter, Alice Huffman Ball (nyse: BLL - news - people ), 32. All three were arrested Monday. News 2007-05-23T22:15:00+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/democrats-say-they-will-end-abstinence-only-funding/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/democrats-say-they-will-end-abstinence-only-funding/#When:20:47:00Z 20.05.07 WASHINGTON — Congressional Democrats say they will pull the plug on abstinence-only sex education when a $50 million grant expires on June 30, a move sparking outrage among social conservative groups. “As the House works to eliminate abstinence funding, their solution is simple — provide more pills that prevent and abort pregnancies,” said Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council. News 2007-05-19T20:47:00+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/wireless-technology-developed-to-speed-care-of-heart-attack-patients/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/wireless-technology-developed-to-speed-care-of-heart-attack-patients/#When:20:38:00Z Imagine paramedics mobilizing a team of cardiologists and nurses within minutes of arriving at the home of a person who is having a heart attack, simply by pressing a button that sends an electrocardiogram (ECG) over a wireless network. That’s exactly what’s being done at a Newark, NJ, medical center, and it’s dramatically improving the quality of care, according to a study presented at the 30th Annual Scientific Sessions of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI), May 9-12, 2007. News 2007-05-19T20:38:00+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/what-is-the-best-diet/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/what-is-the-best-diet/#When:11:27:01Z May 7, 2007 – Volumetrics is the best carefully researched diet plan, and The Best Life Diet is the best diet book, Consumer Reports says. News 2007-05-08T11:27:01+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/drug-resistant-tb-raises-pandemic-fear/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/drug-resistant-tb-raises-pandemic-fear/#When:05:24:00Z May 4, 2007 Detected in 37 nations, the strain poses a high risk of death to people with HIV-AIDS. A virulent strain of tuberculosis resistant to most available drugs is surfacing around the globe, raising fears of a pandemic that could devastate efforts to contain TB and prove deadly to people with immune-deficiency diseases such as HIV-AIDS. News 2007-05-06T05:24:00+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/9-die-as-tornado-levels-kansas-town/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/9-die-as-tornado-levels-kansas-town/#When:18:21:01Z 05.05.07 GREENSBURG, Kan. - Most of this southwest Kansas town was destroyed by a tornado, part of a violent storm system blamed for at least nine deaths, officials said Saturday amid warnings of more severe weather. News 2007-05-05T18:21:01+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/italian-hospital-kills-eight/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/italian-hospital-kills-eight/#When:18:14:00Z Rome, May 5 (Prensa Latina) Italian Attorney´s Office investigated on Saturday eight patients´ death in Apulia region (south) who by error, were provided with nitrogen instead of Oxygen. News 2007-05-05T18:14:00+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/us-infant-mortality-rate-twice-as-high-for-blacks/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/us-infant-mortality-rate-twice-as-high-for-blacks/#When:10:18:00Z May 2 (HealthDay News) While the infant mortality rate in the United States continues to hold steady, significant racial and ethnic differences persist, a new federal study found. News 2007-05-05T10:18:00+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/mental-illness-is-still-a-family-secret/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/mental-illness-is-still-a-family-secret/#When:10:15:01Z 04.05.07 Too many Canadian youths suffering from depression and anxiety aren’t getting treatmentbecause their families are embarrassed to seek help, according to two new studies. In a survey released this week by Kinark Child and Family Services, Ontario’s largest children’s mental health centre, 38 per cent of Canadian adults said they would be embarrassed to admit their child or teen had a mental illness, such as anxiety or depression. News 2007-05-05T10:15:01+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/epilepsy-drug-can-increase-risk-for-newborns-study-says/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/epilepsy-drug-can-increase-risk-for-newborns-study-says/#When:10:12:00Z May 4, 2007 Doctors reported yesterday that expectant mothers with epilepsy who took a commonly prescribed drug to control seizures were at increased risk of having a child with mental deficits. News 2007-05-05T10:12:00+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/uc-davis-experts-guns-violence-and-mental-health/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/uc-davis-experts-guns-violence-and-mental-health/#When:18:02:01Z The University of California, Davis, has campus experts available to discuss research and provide commentary related to guns, school violence, mental health and troubled youth. News 2007-05-04T18:02:01+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/tears-greet-compensation-law/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/tears-greet-compensation-law/#When:16:11:00Z May 04, 2007 04:30 AM Tears of pain have rolled down Nathan Shaw’s face over the loss of his father, a Hamilton firefighter, to cancer. There have also been tears of frustration fighting the workers’ compensation board and trying to prove his father’s cancer was caused by a toxic blaze at a plastics plant. News 2007-05-04T16:11:00+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/antidepressants-to-get-us-warning-on-suicide-risks/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/antidepressants-to-get-us-warning-on-suicide-risks/#When:16:06:01Z May 2 (Bloomberg) Antidepressant drugs, including Wyeth’s top-selling Effexor, need new warnings of the risks of suicidal thoughts and behavior among young adults, U.S. regulators said. The Food and Drug Administration asked the makers of 36 antidepressants to extend an existing precaution for children and adolescents to cover people ages 18 to 24 when they first use the drugs, the agency said in a statement today. Wyeth, Eli Lilly & Co. and other drugmakers must revise their labels within 30 days.  News 2007-05-04T16:06:01+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/cdc-offers-advice-on-citizen-use-of-masks-respirators/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/cdc-offers-advice-on-citizen-use-of-masks-respirators/#When:16:03:01Z May 3, 2007 (CIDRAP News) Though there is little scientific evidence to go on, wearing a surgical face mask may make sense for people who have to go into crowded public places during an influenza pandemic, federal health officials said today. Furthermore, people who care for a pandemic flu patient at home or have other close contact with sick people in a pandemic should consider wearing an N-95 respirator, a more elaborate type of mask designed to stop virus-sized particles, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advised. News 2007-05-04T16:03:01+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/british-scientists-use-gene-therapy-in-pioneering-eye-op/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/british-scientists-use-gene-therapy-in-pioneering-eye-op/#When:15:07:00Z 02 May 2007 LONDON - Doctors in Britain have carried out an operation which is the first attempt to cure a sight disorder using gene therapy, they said Tuesday. Medics at the Moorfields Eye Hospital in London carried out the procedure on 23-year-old Robert Johnson, who was born with an inherited disorder which stops his retina detecting light properly.  News 2007-05-02T15:07:00+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/fda-asks-antidepressant-makers-to-warn-adults-about-suicide-risks/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/fda-asks-antidepressant-makers-to-warn-adults-about-suicide-risks/#When:15:05:00Z By JENNIFER CORBETT DOOREN May 2, 2007 11:38 a.m. WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday it was expanding a “black box” warning on antidepressants stating that the drugs appear to increase the risk of suicidal thinking in young adults up to age 25. News 2007-05-02T15:05:00+04:00 http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/smokers-tapped-to-pay-for-new-health-plan/ http://www.antidrug.health.am/news/healthandlaw/posts/smokers-tapped-to-pay-for-new-health-plan/#When:22:07:00Z A new health insurance plan for the working poor, funded by a 44-cent increase in the cigarette tax, was approved late Sunday by the state legislature. The House voted to pass the plan 70-29, with the Senate voting 37-13 minutes later to do the same, sending the bill to the governor to be signed into law. News 2007-04-30T22:07:00+04:00