By Brendan Pierson (Reuters) -A U.S. scientific publisher has retracted two studies, largely due to their methodology, that a Texas judge cited last year in his ruling suspending federal approval of the abortion pill mifepristone in response to a lawsuit by anti-abortion doctors and medical associations. The retraction Monday by Sage Publications came less than […]
Six attorneys from Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach — three suspended and three essentially disbarred —make up the South Florida representation on the monthly Florida Bar list of lawyers disciplined by the state Supreme Court. In alphabetical order: Omar Arcia, Miramar Omar Arcia No one can question the work ethic of Omar Arcia (joined The […]
I bet the best part of working in the Trump White House was the drugs. We’re talking about the headquarters of the most powerful man on earth, here — the political wildlife preserve that operates with near-perfect impunity and has its own in-house unlicensed pharmacy. And we’re not talking about the Carter administration, either. The […]
After noticing some pill capsules were half-filled, Tabetha Klein worried about the potential consequences of over- or under-dosing her son Tabetha Klein Tabetha Klein A North Carolina mom made an alarming discovery over the holidays when she noticed unexpected inconsistencies in her son’s ADHD medication dosage. Due to her 12-year-old son Noah’s sensitivity to red […]
One of six people indicted for their role in a drug trafficking ring that distributed thousands of fentanyl pills across Whatcom County and the Lummi Nation was sentenced to federal prison last week. Ahbdurman Ahmed, 33, of Seattle, was sentenced to six years in prison Jan. 5 in the Western District of Washington in U.S. […]
The Lane County Sheriff’s Office seized hundreds of suspected fentanyl pills along with fentanyl powder, heroin and other contraband, during a drug bust in the parking lot of the West Lane Center in Veneta on Thursday. Three suspects, two of whom already had outstanding warrants, were all arrested and charged with various drug-related offenses, with […]
Jan. 2—A Post Falls traffic stop led to the seizure of 1,000 fentanyl pills, 1 pound of methamphetamine and a stolen gun. A Kootenai County Sheriff’s Office deputy pulled over a vehicle early Tuesday morning in the area of Interstate 90 and Pleasant View Road, according to a sheriff’s office news release. Law enforcement smelled […]
Unprotected sex on New Year’s Eve may be driving a spike in sales of emergency contraception after the holiday, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. In the study, researchers looked at marketing data on weekly aggregated sales of emergency contraception between 2016 and 2022 and found that sales significantly increase […]
Unprotected sex on New Year’s Eve may be driving a spike in sales of emergency contraception after the holiday, according to a new study published in the British Medical Journal. In the study, researchers looked at marketing data on weekly aggregated sales of emergency contraception between 2016 and 2022 and found that sales significantly increase […]
Keeping up with all the latest in health news can be a crapshoot. Luckily, we’ve got you covered. Here are the most headline-grabbing stories this week from Yahoo News partners. ‘“Crapsules” … may offer new hope for patients’ A clinical trial funded by the United Kingdom’s National Institute for Health and Care Research is testing […]
The share of American women who say they have ever used emergency contraception after having sex has more than doubled since the so-called “morning after” or Plan B brand pills were approved to be sold without a prescription, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. The increase is among dozens of trends tracked […]
Mexican authorities have shuttered another batch of pharmacies, this time in the coastal town of Ensenada, after seizing medicines that could be contaminated with fentanyl. Mexican marines as well as the nation’s sanitation agency (known by the acronym COFEPRIS) inspected 53 pharmacies in the city and ultimately shut down 31 of them for the “irregular […]